The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

A Chinese man lived for almost six months after becoming the first living human to receive a transplant of a pig liver.

A study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. The ...

The US recently approved clinical trials for pig kidney transplants, opening the door to the potential use of other organs ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human recipients.

Losing a tooth is tough. If we lose the small living structures that help us chew our food, we're left with the options of replacing them with dentures or implants that can be costly. Beyond that, ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...