(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 ...

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 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The patient survived for 171 days, offering ...

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 ...

While organoids aim to mimic human organs, the liver's repertoire of complex functions – and thus the energy it needs to operate – have made it challenging for researchers to grow organoids that ...

The liver of a 56-year-old male patient was severely damaged. Chronic hepatitis B, compounded by alcoholic liver injury, caused a rapid decline in liver function. After receiving approximately one ...

Close-up of a human liver lobule highlighting GLUL (glutamine synthetase) + liver cells surrounding the central vein (grey), with intensity-based pseudocoloring of CD32b expression showing the highest ...