U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Treatment options are limited for those with sudden liver failure and the condition has a death rate as high as 50%.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

The first trial to test whether genetically modified pig livers can be used safely to treat people with organ failure has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. As part of the trial ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

The FDA has cleared the first clinical trial to test genetically engineered pig livers in patients who have acute-on-chronic liver failure. The trial will evaluate the use of a Egenesis porcine liver ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can ...

The liver is the only organ that can regenerate, but the question is whether having the pig's liver filter the patient's blood for several days could give it that chance.

This photo provided by eGenesis on Jan. 18, 2024 shows a genetically modified pig liver in Massachusetts before transportation to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in December 2023.

Americans hated offal. Now it’s a trendy food—in grocery stores and online.

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 ...