A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human. The 71-year-old recipient survived for nearly six ...

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into ...

“We have known [for a long time] that the liver will regenerate after injury,” biologist Udayan Apte, associate director of the University of Kansas Liver Center, tells Inverse. “We know now [from ...

Liver diseases are on the rise, leading to about 2 million deaths each year globally, according to 2023 data. This is about 4 ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...

The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...

Salk Institute scientists discovered that bile acids in the liver can weaken immune cell function, making immunotherapy less effective against liver cancer. They pinpointed specific bile acids that ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...