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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Breakthrough by Chinese scientists could lead to pig livers being used to keep people alive while they await a suitable human ...

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

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

Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who ...

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