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 ...

Unlike previous procedures where doctors transplanted pig organs directly into the human body ... who suffer from an acute liver injury and who need time to recover normal liver function.

Transplanting an animal organ into a human is now a closer reality following the successful xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a patient diagnosed with brain death in China.

We conclude that there is no significant difference in ether, cyclopropane and spinal anesthesia in their effect on the normal human liver. It is probable that the changes in liver function ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned ... multiple different teams have reported normal functioning after transplantation inside brain-dead patients.

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 ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.

Abnormal liver tests occur in 1 of 10 pregnancies, though liver function is usually normal during pregnancy. The data suggest that liver metabolic capacity may be reduced in late pregnancy.

Scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania just announced the successful perfusion of a pig’s liver using blood from a recently deceased human donor.