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

Livers have proved trickier—and had not previously been tested out inside a human body ... Both US recipients of pig heart transplants died. But Towana Looney, 53, is back home in Alabama ...

The announcement follows a slew of recent breakthroughs, including transplanting a pig’s heart into a man and a woman currently living with a pig’s kidney. Professor Lin Wang, one of the study ...

including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The group also performed a skin transplant using gene-edit pig skin into a person with severe burns. The liver has remained a challenge to ...