Assessing the toxicity of food contaminants—including carcinogenic potential—is a major challenge in evaluating the risks ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

In another procedure, a team led by Qin Weijun, a doctor at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University, performs a surgery to transplant a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead ...

In the new approach, the pig liver remained outside the patient’s body, significantly lowering the risk of immune rejection.

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

Carnegie Mellon bioprinted liver tissue works 2-4 weeks, potentially saving lives as temporary bridge while patients await transplants or heal.

Doctors have now used a gene-edited pig liver to keep a human alive, not as a thought experiment in a lab but as a real bridge for a failing organ. The procedure signals a turning point in transplant ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD ...

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that prevents our food from killing us, but also because it’s the only organ in ...