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

Doctors at North Shore University hospital performed a rare three-organ transplant procedure all in one. Eyewitness News spoke to the 47-year-old heart, liver and kidney transplant recipient about the ...

You may notice a green and blue “Donate Life” flag flying outside the Antelope Valley Medical Center this month. For decades, ...

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Nationally, there are more than 100,000 people on the wait list for an organ. In 2024, more than 48,000 organ transplants ...

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

THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig ...

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

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, ...

A study published in Nature looks at a genetically modified pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation. Prof Peter Friend, Professor of Transplantation, University of Oxford, said: ...

The operation used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by ...

Liver disease patients waiting for a transplant have been offered fresh hope. A new mechanism for rapid liver regeneration ...