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

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

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 ...

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

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 announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, a team of surgeons in China has successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint that pig livers might eventually be useful, ...

In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection ...

Donor livers are hard to come by, however. This week, a Chinese team turned to another source—pig livers—and published the first results showing how they function inside a human recipient. The liver ...