In a world-first, Chinese researchers have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human, ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into ...

It could be the longest wait they’ll ever know. Over 11,000 liver transplants were performed last year in the US, while ...

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

The 71-year-old patient, who underwent the surgery in May at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, ...

An important new study in the Journal of Hepatology, published by Elsevier, reports the world's first auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient.

For over a month, the pig liver functioned inside the patient, producing bile and synthesising coagulation factors ...

A study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Hepatology has documented the first successful ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

A new human liver organoid microarray developed by Cincinnati Children’s and Roche recreates immune-driven liver injury in ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...