These organoids provide scientists with better models for studying liver biology, and for developing treatments for various liver disorders.

So, if scientists hope to create self-growing patches of liver organoid tissue that could help repair damaged organs, it's ...

One reason why our livers excel at clearing waste from our blood system is that the organ functions according to three key ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed ... with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing liver ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time, raising hopes of a live-saving donor option for ...

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.

Scientists in China have transplanted a modified pig liver into a brain-dead human – the latest step ... a professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo in Spain, who was not ...

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 ...

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 ...

but to serve as a ‘bridge organ’ in cases of acute liver failure, while awaiting a human organ for a definitive transplant.’ Iván Fernández Vega, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the ...