U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

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 ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

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 ...

Chinese doctors said 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 patients in the ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...

Donor livers are hard to come by, however. This week, a Chinese team turned to another source—pig livers—and published the first results showing how they function inside a human recipient. The 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 patients ...