The first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart has died two months after the groundbreaking operation, the ...

When Mary Shelley publishedFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, she wasn’t just writing a gothic horror novel—she ...

As researchers get closer to making pig kidney transplants work in humans, patients in need of donations have new hope.

In A Nutshell • A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as ...

Findings also confirmed that a pig kidney can effectively serve as a replacement for a human kidney. Researchers have ...

Archaeotherium, or North American "hell pigs," had different feeding strategies depending on their size, according to ...

In two studies published Thursday, researchers discovered why transplanted pig organs were being rejected from human patients and how to reverse it.

Doctors at NYU Langone Health say two new studies show that they are a significant step closer to making kidney transplants ...

The liver came from a genetically modified cloned pig with ten gene edits. Pexels For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...

Transplanting organs from non-human animals into people could revolutionise medicine, potentially saving thousands of lives that are lost while people wait for organs. Scientists have previously ...