Liver disease patients dramatically improve thanks to new approach
Damaged human livers can repair themselves. Even livers badly scarred from excessive alcohol use, including alcohol-related ...
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment
In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally ...
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Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human
Doctors could potentially use the pig liver as bridge until a human liver is available or the patient’s liver has recovered, Lin Wang, a surgeon at Xijing hospital in Xi-an, China, said in a ...
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Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
(CNN) — 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 ...