Treatment options are limited for those with sudden liver failure and the condition has a death rate as high as 50%.

The FDA has cleared the first clinical trial to test genetically engineered pig livers in patients who have acute-on-chronic liver failure. The trial will evaluate the use of a Egenesis porcine liver ...

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

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

In experiments with four deceased bodies, that “bridge” attempt showed the pig liver could support some functions of a human liver for two or three days, said Mike Curtis, CEO of Massachusetts-based ...

Elevated circulating tumor DNA fraction and tumor suppressor gene loss are associated with worse prognosis in patients with prostate cancer liver metastases. Elevated circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA ...

histological, functional, and behavioral characteristics that are not shared with humans. Human activities alter the nutrition and living environments of many mammals, in particular those of domestic ...

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.

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.

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 ...