For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in Boston said Thursday. Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Mass., who is suffering ...

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly ...

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement ...

Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

Scientists are making strides in xenotransplantation, using genetically modified pig organs to address the critical shortage ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of U.S. scientists and activists on Monday called for a global ban on the use of new tools to edit the genes of human embryos, in a report issued a day before a major ...

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