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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Recently, they have achieved a medical milestone. Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief duration. In a 50-year-old ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time, raising hopes of a life-saving donor option for patients ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...