May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...

• A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as planned, more than doubling previous survival records for animal-to-human transplants. • The ...

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 ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us why humans seem to thrive with at least one type of transplant from pigs. We are talking about tissue transplants, and from hernias to plastic ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and ...

FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...