Treatment options are limited for those with sudden liver failure and the condition has a death rate as high as 50%.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Researchers in the US are set to test gene-edited pig livers as a potential treatment for sudden liver failure by using them temporarily to filter blood. This cutting-edge clinical trial, approved by ...

The FDA has permitted eGenesis to begin a clinical trial of a dialysis-like system that involves using a gene-edited pig ...

Kai-Shan Tao and colleagues carried out the first such study, transplanting a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human. Gene edits in the donor were designed to inactivate proteins that ...

The FDA has cleared the first clinical trial to test genetically engineered pig livers in patients who have acute-on-chronic liver failure. The trial will evaluate the use of a Egenesis porcine liver ...

US researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body WASHINGTON (AP ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can ...

Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver perfusion using a gene-edited pig liver. Blood in a brain-dead patient circulated through a pig’s liver that was outside the ...

It’s the latest step in attempts to use gene-edited pig organs to save human lives. Pig kidneys from eGenesis and another pig producer, United Therapeutics, are being used in experimental ...