The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...

Over 10 days, the porcine liver produces bile and porcine albumin, maintains stable blood flow, and shows no signs of ...

Grey’s Anatomy season 21 episode 11, titled “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” picks up right where the drama from last week left off, with tensions still being heavy at Grey Sloan Memorial ...

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 ...

The most common place we see metastasis is in the liver," says Denise Harnois, D.O., a Mayo Clinic transplant hepatologist. In roughly a quarter of these cases, the cancer does not spread beyond ...

Chinese surgeons have transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person, showing that the liver ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...