They manage to stabilize a patient with liver failure using a genetically modified pig liver. The organ was not transplanted ...

A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject, constituting a historic precedent in the field of organ transplantation. The liver demonstrated functional ...

A man lived for 171 days with a genetically modified pig liver, the greatest advance to date in xenotransplantation.

In the new approach, the pig liver remained outside the patient’s body, significantly lowering the risk of immune rejection.

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

In a worldwide first-of-its-kind study published in the journal Nature Communications this week, a team of scientists from Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have tested novel gene therapies ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. In this ...

It is a condition that affects a staggering 1.5 billion people worldwide – yet the majority are unaware they have it because, in its early stages, it causes no symptoms. Fatty liver disease is driven ...