The liver is a vital organ, crucial to digestion, metabolism and the elimination of toxins. It has a unique ability, regeneration, which allows it to replace liver cells damaged by the very toxins ...

A new review explores how TMAO, a gut-derived metabolite from red meat and other foods, contributes to heart and brain ...

Efforts to transplant animal organs into humans reached a milestone, when researchers in China reported that a patient ...

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 ...

In a study published in Nature, the group describes transplanting a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead patient. At the ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for ...

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

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