Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

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

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

Chinese researchers have reported new advancements in the pursuit of animal-to-human organ transplants, successfully ...

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

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

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

Eventually, its tissues scar, and if the organ fails, a liver transplant is the only solution. Donor livers are hard to come by, however. This week, a Chinese team turned to another source—pig ...

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 ...