The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by ...

While she can never know exactly what caused her cancer, Lucie Morris-Marr said that as she researched the link with ...

Living donor gives the gift of life to the mother of her late son’s best friend with the help of a novel robotic surgical ...

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 4: Kauvery Hospital, Vadapalani, has successfully performed a complex paediatric liver transplant on a four-month-old baby, completely free of cost under the ...

Liver transplants are becoming a new treatment option for certain colorectal cancer patients whose cancer has spread to their liver and are ineligible for other surgical options. This innovative ...

Transplantation of a gene-modified pig liver to a person diagnosed with brain death was carried out to evaluate the performance of the transplanted organ over a 10-day observation period.

“Glutamate supplementation can promote liver regeneration and benefit patients in recovery following hepatectomy or awaiting a transplant,” wrote the authors in a paper published in ‘Nature ...

I love it, life is good," she said. The 63-year-old spent decades living with a rare congenital heart disease before she received a heart transplant in October 2023. It came just two weeks after ...

(F. A. Murphy/CDC via AP, File) A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The patient had the organ transplanted at a ...

But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted into a brain ...

If you develop liver failure, you may need a liver transplant. You can help keep your liver healthy by making healthy lifestyle changes. Even if there is no specific toxic hepatitis diet, doctors ...