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 ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report they ...

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

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

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, ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

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.

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 ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

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 heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce urine,” he said. “However, the liver has so many functions. It has ...