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.

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

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

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, ...

The operation used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by ...

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

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 ...