The liver is a crucial part of the human body and is one of the largest solid internal organ in the human body, and the ...

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

The surgery was done at the Xijing hospital in Xi’an. “This is the first time we tried to unravel whether the pig liver could ...

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

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

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...

Chinese surgeons have transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person, showing that the liver ...