May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...

• A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as planned, more than doubling previous survival records for animal-to-human transplants. • The ...

A pig-to-human transplant center is being built in Minnesota, local media has reported. United Therapeutics, a U.S. biotech company, has purchased 32 acres of land in Stewartville for $4.5 million to ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then current research regulations would dictate it’s owed human-level regard.

Researchers successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human, proving that such an organ can function for an extended period. The graft supported essential liver processes before ...

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two different gene-edited pig kidneys have been successfully transplanted into living human patients under FDA’s ...