The liver is the body's control tower for metabolism, powering vital functions like converting nutrients to glucose, storing fat and breaking down toxins. Over a third of the world, however, is ...

Massachusetts-based researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...

Of the 50 drugs identified, 33 were not previously labeled as carrying a risk of kidney stones. Conclusion: Our analysis of FAERS data revealed new risk signals for kidney stones not indicated in the ...

They used “a very elegant surgical technique, which allows the insertion of a (relatively small) xeno-liver with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing liver,” commented Peter ...

Studies have shown that magnesium is beneficial in activating vitamin D in the liver and kidneys, said Dr Manjusha Agarwal, senior consultant, internal medicine, Gleneagles Hospital Parel Mumbai. But ...

A Chinese patient is the third person in the world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. The same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

Several pig kidneys and hearts have ... of available organs and save lives in liver emergencies,” Iván Fernández Vega, a professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo in ...

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 ...

"A heart is just a pump, the kidney only produces urine," he said. "But the liver has many functions ... Ivan Fernandez Vega, professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo in ...