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 ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient ... Ivan Fernandez Vega, professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo in Spain ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Chinese doctors have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human, marking a significant step in xenotransplantation. The ...

Doctors could potentially use the pig liver as bridge until a human liver is available or the patient’s liver has recovered, Lin Wang, a surgeon at Xijing hospital in Xi-an, China, said in a ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed ... with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing liver ...

A PIG’S liver has been transplanted into a living human for the first time by Chinese scientists. Surgeons have grafted hearts and kidneys before but not proven success with a liver, which is a ...

The pig liver produced far smaller amounts of bile and albumin than a human liver could achieve, Lin said. More research is needed -- including studying the pig liver for more than 10 days, he added.

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time, raising hopes of a live-saving donor option for ...