The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Satish Nadig, MD, PhD,was recruited to lead Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine’s Comprehensive Transplant Center in 2021. At the same time, Dr. Nadig, who serves as transplant center director and ...

Over 10 days, the porcine liver produces bile and porcine albumin, maintains stable blood flow, and shows no signs of ...

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically ... and there were no signs of immune rejection or accumulation of inflammation.

Breakthrough by Chinese scientists could lead to pig livers being used to keep people alive while they await a suitable human ...

with no early signs of rejection. The same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Getty Images/iStockphoto He said the pig liver produced bile ...

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

Michelle Trachtenberg may have been killed after her body rejected a liver transplant, with the star's mother seeing her just hours before her tragic death. The Buffy and Gossip Girl star was ...

When the team analyzed the liver after removing it 10 days later, there were “no signs of immune rejection,” they wrote in the paper. The transplant came after about a decade of earlier ...