Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Multiple treatment modalities ...

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 ...

Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor ...

producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant recipient, researchers report March 26 in Nature. Such a transplant could one day buy time for people waiting on the liver ...

The Houston-based hospital system abruptly halted the program last year due to a “pattern of irregularities with donor ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has introduced the nation’s first robotic living donor liver transplant at the university’s transplant center ...

“This is the world’s first case of a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human. “The ultimate goal of the experiment was not to achieve a standard liver ...

with limited disruption to the original liver. Six of the pig’s genes had been edited to boost the odds that the transplant would succeed, for example adding altered human genes and removing pig ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

A liver transplant is an operation to remove your liver and replace it with a healthy liver from a donor. We have separate information if you are having part of your liver removed. Your doctor might ...

In the UK, there are more than 11,000 deaths due to liver disease each year. Around 700 people are currently on the waiting list for a transplant, and the average wait is three to four months.