So, if scientists hope to create self-growing patches of liver organoid tissue that could help repair damaged organs, it's ...

One reason why our livers excel at clearing waste from our blood system is that the organ functions according to three key ...

but to serve as a ‘bridge organ’ in cases of acute liver failure, while awaiting a human organ for a definitive transplant.’ Iván Fernández Vega, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the ...

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 brain-dead ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient ... Ivan Fernandez Vega, professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo in Spain ...