What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile ...

Over 10 days, the porcine liver produces bile and porcine albumin, maintains stable blood flow, and shows no signs of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report they have done the same with a pig liver. In a study published in Nature, the group describes transplanting a gene-edited pig liver into a ...

A pig's liver has ... in cases of acute liver failure, while awaiting a human organ for a definitive transplant.’ Iván Fernández Vega, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University ...

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.

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.

Chinese surgeons have transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person ... Ivan Fernandez Vega, professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo, Spain, said ...