在全球异种移植研究中，中国已处于国际前沿。赖毅维表示，国内科研团队与临床专家积累深厚，产业化进程也处于领先水平。“如中科奥格、启函生物等企业正致力于基因编辑和低免疫排斥猪器官供体的研发。”他认为，中国不仅在科研层面紧跟国际步伐，在产业化推进上也走在前 ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

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

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

A PIG’S liver has been transplanted into a living human for the first time by Chinese scientists. Surgeons have grafted ...

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

eGenesis, based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the pig kidneys used in recent transplants. Kidneys are the most in-demand organ for solid organ transplants in Canada. According to the Canadian ...