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

but to serve as a ‘bridge organ’ in cases of acute liver failure, while awaiting a human organ for a definitive transplant.’ Iván Fernández Vega, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the ...

The study offers the latest evidence that gene-modified pig organs could be a viable option for people suffering from organ failure. View on euronews ...

xeno-liver with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing liver,” commented Peter Friend, MD, FRCS, professor of transplantation at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, in the SMC ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

but to serve as a ‘bridge organ’ in cases of acute liver failure, while awaiting a human organ for a definitive transplant.’ Iván Fernández Vega, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the ...