A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday ... Over the 10 days, the doctors monitored the liver's blood flow, bile production, immune response and other key functions. The pig liver "functioned really ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting ... support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much like dialysis for failing kidneys.

Doctors in China ... pig organs because of their similarity to human organs. Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver perfusion using a gene-edited pig liver. Blood ...

Pigs are used for these operations because they have similar metabolisms and organ size to humans. While monkeys are the most similar species to humans, the US Food ... blood cells. The doctors in ...