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.

The team's feat with a pig liver last month ... one day help the million or so Chinese patients with end-stage kidney disease ...

Chinese scientists keep monkey alive for 6 months with gene-edited pig’s kidney (Web Desk) - In an extraordinary development, ...

The beneficial effect of colchicine in gout is possibly due to the effect of this drug on purine metabolism, since human serum nucleotidase and guinea pig liver xanthine dehydrogenase are inhibite ...

It follows the first ever transplant earlier this year of a gene-edited pig liver into a human cancer patient. Previously, the lack of successful long-term animal tests on gene-edited pig organs ...

a genetically modified pig heart and a porcine liver. The heart, like the kidney, will be transplanted in humans. The liver will be used to provide “perfusion” to patients in end-stage liver ...

including kidney and liver problems, uncoordinated walking, bulging eyes, gastric ulcers, heart disease and pneumonia. The catastrophic failure of the now infamous "Beltsville Pig" resulted in a ...