Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified ...
Science Daily

Scientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver

Researchers successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human, proving that such an organ can function for ...
The New York Times

Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant

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 ...
Healio

‘We need this’: Pig-to-human kidney transplants enter clinical trials

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two different gene-edited pig kidneys have been successfully transplanted into living human patients under FDA’s ...
Scientific American

What Does the First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant Mean for Xenotransplantation?

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...