Liver disease is a major global health problem, causing over two million deaths worldwide each year. While animal models have ...

Professor Yohan Kim of Sungkyunkwan University and the Max Planck Institute research team recreated the structure and ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and their collaborators have used human stem cells to develop liver organoids that faithfully replicate key zones observed in human livers ...

Of all the organs, the liver is most susceptible to drug toxicity. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a leading cause of drug attrition, with over 750 FDA-approved drugs known to have a level of DILI ...

An important new study in the Journal of Hepatology, published by Elsevier, reports the world's first auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The ...

The liver came from a genetically modified cloned pig with ten gene edits. Pexels For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...