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

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 ...

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 ...

The new study, which is expected to get underway later this spring, is a twist on the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers won’t transplant the pig liver but instead will ...

U.S. 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 ...