A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children's and colleagues based in Japan report achieving a major step forward in organoid technology: producing liver tissue that grows its own internal blood vessels.

The lab-made 3D liver model serves as a human relevant platform for analyzing the progressive stages of the liver disease, ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a human for the first time Chinese researchers inserted the liver, which was taken from a pig that had been ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

This 3D animation shows an advanced liver organoid capable of forming its own internal blood vessels. Using a multilayered gel process, researchers coaxed vessel-forming sinusoidal cells (bright green ...

Doctors have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year after the procedure. The man’s own liver had irreversible scarring ...

The liver is one of the most important organs in the body, yet many people are unaware of its true function. Simply put, the liver serves as a filter for the blood. In conjunction with the kidneys, ...

Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) are four main processes that demonstrate how a drug behaves after being administered. Therefore, ADME is key in defining a compound’s ...