First-Ever Transplant of Pig Liver Into Human Marks Milestone in Organ Science
These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...
Tumor formation's two-step process: Mutated cells can persist for long periods without turning cancerous
Researchers at City of Hope have found that cell mutations are necessary but not always sufficient for tumors to form.
First gene-edited pig liver into human patient in China functioned for 10 days, study finds
The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...
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Pregnancy’s lasting effects on different parts of the body revealed
An "unprecedented view" of how the body changes during and after pregnancy has revealed many long-lasting impacts on the ...
Chinese doctors implant pig liver in human for first time
Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for ...
The interplay of two genes illuminates how the large human brain evolved
Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...
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Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human
A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
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Scientists have put a pig’s liver inside a human – but how does it work?
Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day become a routine procedure. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical ...
Scientists Want to Grow Spare Human Bodies. They Swear It Won’t Involve Consciousness.
According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical ...
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Brain quiz: Test your knowledge of the most complex organ in the body
Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...