Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the ...

The University of Maryland Medical Center made headlines not too long time ago, when it achieved a significant milestone in the field of xenotransplantation by successfully transplanting a genetically ...

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient as part of a clinical trial. The kidney had ...

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...

eGenesis’ pigs are genetically modified so that their organs are more compatible with human recipients. Key to this effort is using a tool called CRISPR to knock out the gene responsible for a ...