Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more ...

A Chinese man lived for almost six months after becoming the first living human to receive a transplant of a pig liver.

For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ, marking another major advancement for transplant medicine. In a new paper ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...

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 groundbreaking pig liver transplant in China saw a 71-year-old patient survive 171 days, with the pig organ providing ...

In a groundbreaking first, doctors transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living patient, marking a significant advancement in xenotra ...

A human liver deemed not viable for transplant has been repaired by an innovative perfusion machine and subsequently transplanted into a patient who continues to do well a year after the ...

Cancers often release molecules into the bloodstream that pathologically alter the liver, shifting it to an inflammatory state, causing fat buildup and impairing its normal detoxifying functions, ...