Third person 'cured' of HIV after receiving stem cell cancer treatment
20 February 2023
A man has no signs of an active HIV infection after receiving stem cells from a donor who is resistant to the virus
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Are genetically modified pig organs the future of transplants?
8 February 2022
Leading surgeon David Cooper talks about the dawn of a new era of transplantation in which organs for human transplants come from genetically modified animals
Genetically modified pig kidneys transplanted into a brain-dead person
20 January 2022
In an experiment paving the way for clinical trials, two pig kidneys produced urine for 77 hours after transplantation into the body of a man who was brain dead
Mouse embryos that are 4 per cent human are step towards spare organs
13 May 2020
Mouse embryos injected with human stem cells grew for 17 days, creating chimeras with up to 4 per cent human cells, a step towards growing human organs for transplant
Human genes have been added to pigs to create skin for transplants
29 January 2020
The race to create pigs organs for human transplants is hotting up. Three teams have each added human genes to pigs to try to create rejection-proof skin
Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China
6 December 2019
Two pig-monkey chimeras were born in China but died within a week. This is the first time live pigs have been created that contain some primate cells
