This is the first time, however, a pig liver has been transplanted into a human. Rafael Matesanz, founder of the National Transplant Organisation in Spain, said: ‘This is the world’s first ...

In 2013, they successfully performed the first pig-to-monkey heterotopic auxiliary liver transplantation in China. Both the recipient monkey and the transplanted liver survived for 14 days.

Scientists in China have transplanted a modified pig liver into a brain-dead human – the latest step toward using pig organs to help extremely ill patients with liver failure. In one of the first ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

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 ...

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

Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and maybe heal.

Chinese researchers are reporting two new steps in the quest for pig-to-human organ transplants: a successful pig kidney transplant and an experiment with a pig liver.

A PIG’S liver has been transplanted into a living human for the first time by Chinese scientists.Surgeons have grafted hearts and kidneys before but. Jump directly to the content.

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful.

Working with the liver “is so difficult,” Wang said. “We all know the function of the liver is so complicated.” Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah ...