Doctors say that Richard Slayman's body did not reject a pig kidney modified to become more compatible with human biology.

The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an ...

Richard Slayman lived for less than two months after he received a genetically engineered pig kidney after living with Type 2 ...

It is believed that the liver produces back-up energy molecules called 'ketone bodies' which protect the brain from injury. While the technique has only been used in pigs so far, the researchers ...

It is believed that the liver produces back-up energy molecules called 'ketone bodies' which protect the brain from injury. While the technique has only been used in pigs so far, the researchers ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.

One group also had a healthy pig’s liver incorporated into the life support system in a technique known as normothermic machine perfusion (NMP). This machine keeps organs at a normal temperature ...

After that, he and his team will start an attempt to apply it to humans. The idea is to take all the cells from a pig liver and replace them with human cells, essentially creating a human liver, Ross ...

In January this year, eGenesis announced that it had conducted a study in which a genetically engineered pig liver was connected to a brain dead person. The company said no rejection was observed ...

All of the pigs had blood flow to their brains stopped, but some were hooked up to a life support system that kept their liver’s circulation going. The scientists then tried to revive the pigs ...

Scientists have revived activity in the brains of pigs up to nearly an hour after circulation had ceased. In some cases, ...