More than 10,000 Americans are waiting for a liver transplant. Many more never make the list, because they are too sick to ...

MIT engineers developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of a failing liver.

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 ...

Scientists have developed injectable "mini livers" that can replicate liver function, potentially buying time for those with liver disease.

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 ...

Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice Can’t keep waiting on the transplant list? How ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

A US biotechnology company has 3D printed a tiny functioning liver in the lab that survived just over five days -- more than twice the life expectancy of 2D versions. Presenting the results at the ...

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 ...

Creating a drug that might help treat or cure a health condition in humans is a long, complex process. After developing a ...