What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Our liver has admirable regenerative properties ... scientists have been eyeing other species as resources for functional organs that could replace broken human body parts. Bama miniaturized pigs are ...

An "unprecedented view" of how the body changes during and after pregnancy has revealed many long-lasting impacts on the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Professor Lin Wang, one of the study’s authors from the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an, said: ‘The liver collected from the modified pig functioned very well in the human body.

In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human body—at least for a short while. Researchers in China ...

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

(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 ...