A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject ... viability for a period of 10 days within the body of a brain-dead patient, without eliciting ...

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 ...

The pig liver’s smaller size means it could be added into the body without removing the diseased human organ, to help it function temporarily. The liver’s function is to filter and clean blood ...

The researchers found that the genetically modified pig liver could function in a human body — at least for 10 days. The surgery was performed at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, China, and their ...

Professor Lin Wang, author of the study, published in the Nature journal, said: “The liver collected from the modified pig functioned very well in the human body. It’s a great achievement.

(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was ...

Livers have proved trickier -- and had not previously been tested out inside a human body. But with a huge and growing demand for liver donations across the world, researchers hope that gene ...

"Surgery was really successful," he told a news conference. "The liver from the pig functioned very well in the human body. So it's a great achievement." Hearts and kidneys from genetically ...

Livers have proved trickier — and had not previously been tested out inside a human body. But with a huge and growing demand for liver donations across the world, researchers hope that gene ...