The liver is one of the most important parts of the human body and is located in the right upper part of the abdomen. Over 500 functions of the body are carried out by the liver. Sadly ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

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 ...

In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human body—at least for a short while. Researchers in China ...

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 ...

Livers have proved trickier—and had not previously been tested inside a human body. But with a huge and growing demand for liver donations across the world, researchers hope that gene-edited ...