Organ transplantation has a supply problem, and the proposed future keeps getting more science-fictional: gene-edited pigs supplying replacement parts for humans. Many believe xenotransplantation ...

A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully connected a functioning liver from a genetically modified pig to a human body.* In a step toward testing the procedure in living people, a team at the ...

Liver disease is a major global health problem, causing over two million deaths worldwide each year. While animal models have helped to understand liver biology, they often fail to accurately ...

The human body has some brutal survival limits, and medicine has documented them in detail. Certain body parts can be removed ...