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A 10-gene-edited pig liver kept a human alive for weeks in a world-first procedure. Find out how this landmark xenotransplant ...

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Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in xenotransplantation, in which an animal kidney is transplanted into a human. More than 800 ...

A surgical team at New York City-based NYU Langone Health has performed the first pig-to-human kidney transplant as part of a new clinical trial for patients with end-stage renal disease. The ...

A pioneering technology has been developed that enables human kidney organoids to be produced in a scalable manner by allowing the organoids to be combined with ex vivo pig kidneys and then ...

FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

“Pig butchering” is every bit as brutal as it sounds. In the world of cryptocurrency investment fraud, the term refers to a slow, methodical scheme built on deception. Scammers carefully cultivate ...

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 ...