Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient. The transplant functioned for 10 days ...

The goal is to reuse key parts of the treatment and simply swap in a custom set of instructions for each patient's specific gene mutation, doctors say.

the VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center has become the first medical institution in the United States to perform a fully robotic living donor liver transplant. This milestone procedure involved ...

Lee: The successful completion of the first fully robotic living donor liver transplant in the U.S. was ... Lee: No. Robotic surgery complements human expertise. It enhances surgical capability ...

KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.

Advt "The research community has long needed a better model for studying human ... for growing liver organoids for over 13 years. Breakthroughs from his lab include producing the first connected ...

Alarmingly, we are now seeing people in their early 30s presenting ... survival after a pig-to-human transplant lasted 130 days. How has India’s approach to liver transplantation evolved over ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first trial ... and changes in liver function. The organs have been genetically modified to make them more compatible with humans.

At 2 months old, Mattie Beacham was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare disease of the liver and bile ducts ...

Shares of TransMedics Group ( TMDX 6.54%) recently bounded higher in response to a first-quarter earnings report that was a ...