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An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

Scientists have been exploring alternatives for decades, including using pig organs because of their similarity to human organs. Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited pig kidneys, hearts, and now livers into the human body. © l i g h t p o e t via Shutterstock We’ve reached a ...

The feats are the latest in a string of advances in xenotransplantation, the transfer of living organs or tissues from one species into another. Doctors have already seen success with pig kidneys ...

Transplantation of a gene-modified pig liver to a person diagnosed with brain death was carried out to evaluate the performance of the transplanted organ over a 10-day observation period.

The first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human was undertaken by Chinese researchers last year, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. The patient was clinically brain ...

“This second xenotransplant provides us with another excellent opportunity to learn how we can make genetically edited pig organs a viable, long-term solution for patients,” said surgeon ...

This surgery is part of a growing effort to use genetically altered pig organs to help deal with a shortage of human organs for transplant. So far, four people have received pig kidneys and two ...

The pig liver transplant experiment conducted in March of last year attracted attention as the world's first xenogeneic liver transplant. The number of patients needing organ transplants is ...

And alternative solutions such as bioengineered organs have not yet reached clinical viability. Pig-to-human transplantation represents a promising solution because pigs have anatomical and ...