The liver has a unique structure, especially at the level of individual cells. Hepatocytes, the main liver cells, release ...

Their liver spheroids included about 2,000 human cells from ten donors, replicating real human liver tissue with functioning metabolic enzymes. The brain organoids were grown from stem cells over ...

Scientists in Pennsylvania last year attached a pig liver to a human patient and had it successfully filter blood, but it was not transplanted into the body. Study author Professor Lin Wang said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...