A Chinese team has achieved a world first with a pig liver graft that functioned in a living recipient for more than a month, ...

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

A study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Hepatology has documented the first successful ...

For over a month, the pig liver functioned inside the patient, producing bile and synthesising coagulation factors ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into ...

As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.

In a landmark move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given biotech company eGenesis the go-ahead to conduct a broader human trial in pig-to-human kidney transplants, marking a significant ...

More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ transplant. Most of them need a new kidney. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a big step towards the future of the ...

The heads were left by two foreigners, according to prosecutors, who said the motive was to “cause unrest,” but they did not identify a group or nation behind the act. By Aurelien Breeden and Amelia ...

Despite how it sounds, a xenotransplant isn't something from the latest Alien movie. It's an increasingly credible science: the transplantation of animal organs into humans. The field took one of its ...

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...