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

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

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

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

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

“We all know the function of the liver is so complicated.” Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for ...

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.

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

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

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint that pig livers might eventually be useful, ...