In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

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

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 ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

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.

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 ...

suis," his doctors concluded. They noted that it is possible the dog and goats on the farm where the man lived also could have picked up the infection from pigs and passed it on to him.

The first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human was undertaken by Chinese researchers last year, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. The patient was clinically brain ...

Challenge your observation skills with a fun optical illusion featuring pigs at a party. Find the three pigs without party hats hidden among the others. This tricky puzzle can sharpen your focus ...