Chinese scientists successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a macaque earlier this year, achieving ...

Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first ...

German scientists plan to clone and then breed this year genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors for humans, based on a simpler version of a US-engineered animal used last month in the ...

The genetically modified breed of guinea pig was created ... Solórzano said. Guinea pigs are native to the Andes Mountains, ...

This photo provided by PorMedTec Co. shows a surrogate pig pregnant with genetically modified piglets with organs suitable for human transplantation. TOKYO -- A Japanese research team announced on ...

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first ...

The world’s first successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human being ... s body didn’t immediately reject the genetically modified heart is thought to be extremely encouraging.

1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney ... single genetically edited pig kidney into a macaque, replacing its native kidneys.