A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

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

The announcement follows a slew of recent breakthroughs, including transplanting a pig’s heart ... ‘The liver collected from the modified pig functioned very well in the human body.

“The heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce urine,” he said. “However, the liver has so many functions. It has ...

Chinese doctors said that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first ...

“The heart just functions as a heart ... since the volume of material that the pig liver produces may not fulfill what a human body requires. Separate from Wednesday’s study, the team in ...

"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told ...