Assessing the toxicity of food contaminants—including carcinogenic potential—is a major challenge in evaluating the risks ...

The university's scientists have received a $28.5 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a transplantable 3D-printed liver patch. The initiative ...

Technically speaking, the transplant was a success.

Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the ...

United Therapeutics’ bioengineered external liver assist system developed to treat patients with acute forms of chronic liver ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

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 ...

Scientists have found a way to fine-tune a central fat-control pathway in the liver, reducing harmful blood triglycerides ...

In A Nutshell The small, short trial showed no serious side effects, but much larger and longer studies are needed to prove ...