xenotransplantation

The achievement bolsters hopes that nonhuman animals could be used to remedy the shortage of transplantable organs.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

Primates receiving heart transplants from genetically engineered pigs have survived more than six months, a new study reveals.

The study could pave the way for transplanting porcine organs to humans without the risk of reigniting endogenous retroviruses.

Thomas Starzl performed the first successful human liver transplant in 1967 and went on to help develop drugs that improved survival for organ transplant patients.

A donor heart from a genetically modified pig survives for more than 2.5 years inside a baboon’s abdomen.

Can mice with humanlike tissues better model drug effects in people?

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