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

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 ...

“However, this unique pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation can still provide critical information that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone.” Liver transplantation is the most ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human ... learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted ...

Chinese doctors have successfully transplanted a liver from ... the past few years, pigs have reportedly emerged as the most viable source for animal-to-human organ transplants.

The same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants ...

Next, the doctors plan to trial the gene-edited pig liver in a living human. Oxford University transplantation professor Peter Friend, who was not involved in the study, said the results were ...