As NewScientist reports, a team of researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing set about creating the first pig-monkey chimeras. A chimera is any ...

China has made a breakthrough in the transplantation of organs from one species into another, with the country’s first gene-edited pig kidney surviving for over half a year in a monkey.

25 that it has successfully transplanted a pig kidney genetically modified for humans into a monkey, marking Japan's first case of cross-species transplantation with such an organ. The team ...