What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

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

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject, constituting a historic ...

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

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Professor Lin Wang, one of the study’s authors from the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an, said: ‘The liver collected from the modified pig functioned very well in the human body.

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

Chinese doctors announced on Wednesday that they had successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a ...