Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

In a world first, surgeons in Boston have transplanted a genetically altered pig kidney into a 62-year-old man. The procedure is a step toward providing more readily available organs to patients who ...

Last year, there were 48,149 organ transplant procedures in the United States, or roughly 132 kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and other organs transplanted every day — a new record. Each day, 13 people ...

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 ...