A new clinical trial will soon test if a pig liver can help people whose own livers have suddenly stopped working.

FDA approves first human trial to transplant pig livers, offering hope for patients with severe liver failure.

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 spring, is a twist on the quest for animal-to-human organ ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Serum glucose, creatinine, and total protein levels were similar among pigs injected with pSP-GHRH or pSPβgal, suggesting that renal, liver ... as well as humans, and does not appear to cause ...

Transplanting an animal organ into a human is now a closer reality following the successful xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a patient diagnosed with brain death in China.

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists ... Matesanz said the procedure was "successful for its intended purpose" and that similar transplants ...

“You can use it as a bridge until a human liver is available for transplant ... Massachusetts General Hospital performed similar experiments with pig kidneys. And earlier this year, scientists ...

Pigs have long been a tantalizing source of transplants because their organs are so similar to humans ... the size of an adult human heart. Other organs from pigs being researched for transplantation ...

U.S. scientists have tested a similar idea by hooking up a pig ... Wang said his team has also tried replacing a human liver completely with a pig liver in another brain-dead person and is now ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

A Chinese medical team has successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human, with the organ showing good physiological function, state media ...