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 ...

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

The doctors in China said on Wednesday (Mar 26) that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time. The transplanted liver functioned ...

“This is the first time we tried to unravel whether the pig liver could work well in the human body and … whether it could replace the original human liver in the future. It is our dream to ...

A schematic diagram of the surgery ... of human genes to make the organ more compatible with the human body. When the transplant took place, it was not a complete replacement of the patient's liver, ...

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, author of the study, published in the Nature journal, said: “The liver collected from the modified pig functioned very well in the human body. It’s a great achievement.

"Surgery was really successful," he told a news conference. "The liver from the pig functioned very well in the human body. So it's a great achievement." Hearts and kidneys from genetically ...

Pigs have similar organs to humans, but their organs tend to be rejected by the human body. To tackle this, scientists genetically modified the liver to reduce the risk of rejection by the ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile ...

The researchers found that the genetically modified pig liver could function in a human body — at least for 10 days. The surgery was performed at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, China, and their ...