Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the recipient’s immune system will attack the organ. Credit: Shelby Lum/AP via ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Several years ago, at a lab near a massive experimental farm in Guangdong Province in China, scientists prepped a whopping 4,008 genetically modified pig embryos ...

when it achieved a significant milestone in the field of xenotransplantation by successfully transplanting a genetically modified pig heart into a human recipient. The case study published in A ...

Paris: Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time, raising hopes of a live-saving donor option for ...

The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by a human immune system. The organ successfully ...