What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
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 ...
In the new case, surgeons brought the liver inside the body. The team started with a Bama miniature pig that had some pig genes knocked out and some human genes pasted in. These genes play a role ...
Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in China successfully transplanted the liver from a miniature pig that had ...
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 ...
(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 ...