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 ...

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 ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted ... modified pig’s liver located outside their body. This is the first time, however, a pig liver has been transplanted into a human. Rafael Matesanz, founder ...

The pig liver’s smaller size means it could be added into the body without removing the diseased human organ, to help it function temporarily. The liver’s function is to filter and clean blood ...

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood ...

In the US last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of "bridge" support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much like ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers found that the genetically modified pig liver could function in a human body — at least for 10 days. The surgery was performed at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, China, and their ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted ... modified pig’s liver located outside their body. This is the first time, however, a pig liver has been transplanted into a human. Rafael Matesanz, founder ...