Pigs have similar organs to humans, but their organs tend to be rejected by the human body ... out that only one liver has been transplanted “which precludes drawing generalisable conclusions ...

Liver transplant is a lifesaving surgery, but a significant number of patients experience organ rejection or other ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

The pig liver’s smaller size means it could be added into the body without removing the diseased human organ, to help it function temporarily. The liver’s function is to filter and clean blood ...

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood ...

Livers have proved trickier -- and had not previously been tested out inside a human body. But with a huge and growing demand for liver donations across the world, researchers hope that gene ...

The researchers found that the genetically modified pig liver could function in a human body — at least for 10 days. The surgery was performed at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, China, and their ...

“In the future, we will try to answer: how long (can) the pig liver survive and support the human body.” Lin and his colleagues transplanted a liver from a Bama miniature pig in which six genes had ...

(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 ...