The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

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

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

In the UK, there are more than 11,000 deaths due to liver disease each year. Around 700 people are currently on the waiting list for a transplant, and the average wait is three to four months.

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has introduced the nation’s first robotic living donor liver transplant at the ...

Critically ill candidates with chronic end-stage liver disease placed on waiting lists at centers in less populated areas had ...

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 brain-dead ...

But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted into a brain ...

During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver produced bile and porcine albumin, maintained stable blood flow, and showed no signs of rejection. The report of the transplantation ...

“This is the world’s first case of a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human. “The ultimate goal of the experiment was not to achieve a standard liver ...