In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

A pediatric heart transplant had never been carried out on Long Island. Until last Friday. Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Hospital successfully completed the first procedure on the island ...

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys gain FDA approval.

As Richelle Murray swims laps in her local pool, she can breathe more easily than she has for a long time. "I feel free. I love it, life is good," she said. The 63-year-old spent decades living ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection ...

A Chinese medical team has successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human ... Multiple gene-edited pig heart and kidney transplants ...

the donor liver came from a pig that had been genetically modified to inactivate genes that mediate rejection and to include human transgenes to facilitate compatibility. Before transplant ...

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant ... Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin said.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...