Scientists have been exploring alternatives for decades, including using pig organs because of their similarity to human organs. Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver ...

Demand for liver donor livers far exceeds the supply so pigs have long been considered a possible alternative given the similarity of their organs to that of humans. Previously scientists have ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day become a routine procedure. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical ...