How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a ...

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

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 ...

But in February 2025, a pivotal moment was reached when the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first clinical trial testing whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs could be safely ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted into his body six weeks ago. Dr. Leonardo Riella squirts a cold gel on Andrews’ belly, and presses an ...

Helen Branswell Towana Looney, the 53-year-old patient who in November became the third person ever to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, is headed home to Alabama. “I feel ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different ...

The xenotransplantation approach seeks to alleviate shortage of human organs, and could potentially provide a lifeline to ...

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