Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient. The transplant functioned for 10 days ...

The liver was successfully retrieved by the ... Additionally, this was only the second instance of en-bloc kidney ...

During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver produced bile and porcine albumin, maintained stable blood flow, and showed no signs of rejection. The report of the transplantation ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Richmond-based VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center made history this month by becoming the first center in the United States to perform a fully robotic liver transplant using a liver from a living ...

The liver was successfully retrieved by the ... It is the second instance of en bloc kidney transplantation in the state, a ...

There are few treatment options and death rates as high as 50%. Many don't qualify for a liver transplant or can't get a match in time. The new study, which is expected to get underway later this ...