CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recently-published study revealed that scientists grew human-like teeth in a pig's mouth by using a mix of human and pig DNA. The new study, published in Stem Cells Translational ...
Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...
Researchers from the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine have penned a new study published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine that details the process of growing a mix of human ...
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 ...
Maryland-based United Therapeutics, a $14 billion pharmaceutical and biotech firm, is building a new 65,000-square-foot, $110 million pathogen-free facility on the edge of Stewartville to raise ...
The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a ...
(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 ...