The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year thereafter - demonstrating both the promise and hurdles that need to be overcome for wider clinical use.

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

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

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

Organizations that use human wisdom as part of their strategic approach can achieve better results than organizations that ...

Medics have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a ...

Knee and other joint-replacement procedures can be a major improvement to a patient's quality of life – unless infection sets ...

A man with type 1 diabetes produces his own insulin after receiving genetically-modified donor islet cells, without the need ...

A bipartisan group of senators has been discussing possible compromises, but so far, no solution has emerged to end the ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

Minimally invasive therapy has fewer side effects, hospital says Columbia Memorial Hospital is expanding its robotic-assisted ...