Background: The presence of a hypervascular nodule in a patient with cirrhosis is highly suggestive of a hepatocellular carcinoma. Case Presentation: A 55 year old man with idiopathic refractory ...

Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in ...

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, and ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...

Of all the organs, the liver is most susceptible to drug toxicity. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a leading cause of drug attrition, with over 750 FDA-approved drugs known to have a level of DILI ...

'Multi-zonal' liver organoids represent a significant step forward in developing lab-grown liver tissues. One reason why our livers excel at clearing waste from our blood system is that the organ ...

The liver came from a genetically modified cloned pig with ten gene edits. Pexels For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ ...

A 71-year-old man in China lived for almost six months after receiving a liver transplant from a genetically modified pig, scientists have announced. The man's own liver had irreversible scarring ...