In a historic medical breakthrough, Northwestern Medicine surgeons successfully split a deceased donor’s liver to save two patients.

Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most-common cancer in the U.S. and the second deadliest. One in 5 patients is diagnosed with ...

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

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine split a liver to save two lives. The surgery also brings new hope for ...

A team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed a successful liver transplant in a patient with terminal ...

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.

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 the researchers note that theirs is the first peer-reviewed study to document the bona fide transplantation of a gene-edited pig liver into a person. “It’s a great achievement,” said ...

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 ...

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much like ...