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 ...

LIVER cancer is the fourth most common cancer in Malaysia and also the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

This would make a partial resection impossible and his team of doctors now knew that his best shot would be a full liver transplant. For those who don’t know, a liver is able to regenerate.

producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant recipient, researchers report March 26 in Nature. Such a transplant could one day buy time for people waiting on the liver ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

“This surgery was really successful.” Writing in the journal Nature, he added: “Auxiliary liver transplantation is an ideal bridge therapy for people with liver failure, because it is not ...

Dozens gathered at UC Medical Center to celebrate National Donate Life Month, showing a heartwarming story of organ donation ...

Liver disease patients waiting for a transplant have been offered fresh ... or those who have undergone partial resection in surgery to remove a tumor.” Liver regeneration was known to occur ...