The increasing demand for donor hearts presents both a critical challenge and a significant opportunity for innovation in ...

In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. 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 ...

Transplantation of a gene-modified pig liver to a person diagnosed with brain death was carried out to evaluate the performance of the transplanted organ over a 10-day observation period.

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.

US pig developer eGenesis is studying that approach. In China, Wang's team didn’t remove the deceased person’s own liver, instead implanting the pig liver near it.

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.

The pig liver produced far smaller amounts of bile and albumin than a human liver could achieve, Lin said. More research is needed -- including studying the pig liver for more than 10 days, he added.

However, hepatobiliary surgeon Lin Wang at the Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an, China, who led the research, himself cautioned that it was still unclear whether the ...