Biotech company eGenesis recently announced its implanted a pig kidney into a second human patient. This animal-to-human organ transplant, or xenotransplant, was made possible through advancements in ...
When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated ...
The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...
Scientists have reached a groundbreaking achievement by successfully converting a type A kidney to type O and transplanting ...
Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain dead individual and the lungs were viable and functioning for nine ...
Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...
The Japanese startup PorMedTec plans to open a farm by 2027 to raise cloned pigs for organ transplantation. PorMedTec, ...
We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...
New York (MedscapeWire) Dec 15 - According to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), transplants involving hearts or lungs from pigs should not be permitted at the ...
The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...
The move aims to regulate cell and gene therapies, and xenografts or animal-to-human transplants. Such therapies are ...