They manage to stabilize a patient with liver failure using a genetically modified pig liver. The organ was not transplanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. The ...

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

University of Pennsylvania doctors hooked a genetically-modified pig liver up to a brain-dead patient and were able to have the organ successfully filter the man’s blood for 72 hours, according to the ...