There have been outbreaks in Europe linked to consuming foods that carry higher risk such as smoked sausage and pig-based products made from liver. Pig liver has a very high risk for HEV ...

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 in China, according to a new study. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xian, in ...

On the morning of March 10, 2024, in an operating room in Xi’an, China, surgeons connected a living human body to a gene-edited pig liver. A brain-dead patient, with his family’s consent ...

Transplantation of a gene-modified pig liver to a person diagnosed with brain death was carried out to evaluate the performance of the transplanted organ over a 10-day observation period.

In a study published March 26 in the journal Nature, they reported implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. The liver survived for 10 days and showed early signs of working. What's more ...

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 (relatively small) xeno-liver with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing 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 ...

And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike in hopes of ...

Chinese doctors have successfully transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time on Wednesday (local time). This groundbreaking procedure is seen ...