What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Over 10 days, the porcine liver produces bile and porcine albumin, maintains stable blood flow, and shows no signs of ...

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

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

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day ...

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who ...

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 ...