A non-brain-dead patient survived for 171 days after receiving a pig liver transplant. This marks the world’s first case of ...

A Chinese man lived for almost six months after becoming the first living human to receive a transplant of a pig liver.

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into ...

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – 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.

Subject: DNX announces a breakthrough that uses pigs to make human hemoglobin You can”t squeeze blood from a stone, but can you from a pig? That idea may not be as farfetched as it sounds. DNX is a ...

A MAN lived with a transplanted pig liver for more than a month in the most successful operation of its kind, scientists say.

Using genetic engineering techniques, biologists have created pigs that produce human hemoglobin, the essential oxygen-carrying component of blood. Experts said the achievement was a milestone in the ...