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

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 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 seven-month ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

Discover how a miniature model of the human liver can help improve toxicology testing for food contaminants, reducing the ...

This research 'holds promise for advancing studies on using pig livers to support or even replace human liver function,' says ...

Human periportal assembloid, showcasing the three key cell types of the liver: portal fibroblasts (magenta), cholangiocytes (green), and hepatocyte nuclei (blue). All cell borders are delineated in ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

In a human organoid-based mechanistic investigation, researchers revealed how an immunosuppressive drug, antithymocyte ...