Kidney transplants are the only cure for end-stage kidney disease. Although over a million ... The team's feat with a pig liver last month, which also functioned normally for 10 days until it ...

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.

EMBO Molecular Medicine reveals a major breakthrough: Chinese scientists have managed to revive pigs' brains one hour after cardiac arrest. This feat relies on an innovative liver-based intervention.