The university's scientists have received a $28.5 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a transplantable 3D-printed liver patch. The initiative ...

United Therapeutics’ bioengineered external liver assist system developed to treat patients with acute forms of chronic liver ...

Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the ...

Technically speaking, the transplant was a success.

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 ...

The placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised Phase I trial involved 100 healthy participants.

Scientists have found a way to fine-tune a central fat-control pathway in the liver, reducing harmful blood triglycerides ...

Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

In the short term, these multi-zonal liver organoids will help scientists shed new light on diseases including diabetes, drug-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, and viral hepatitis.

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 ...