The remarkable functions of the liver include filtering blood, processing nutrients, and detoxifying harmful substances.

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

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

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

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

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

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.

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 liver has remained a challenge to transplant with anything other than another human liver, since the organ performs so ...

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 ...