A man lived for 171 days with a genetically modified pig liver, the greatest advance to date in xenotransplantation.

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 ...

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

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 seven-month ...

This research 'holds promise for advancing studies on using pig livers to support or even replace human liver function,' says ...

Discover how a miniature model of the human liver can help improve toxicology testing for food contaminants, reducing the ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

In a human organoid-based mechanistic investigation, researchers revealed how an immunosuppressive drug, antithymocyte ...