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.

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 ...

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

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 – with a successful pig kidney ...

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

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

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

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

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