The liver is responsible for more than 500 functions in the human body, including filtering harmful substances from the blood. Some people’s livers metabolize toxins more slowly than others, but too ...

It has been described as a revolutionary technology — and won its inventors a Nobel Prize.CRISPR gene editing, often simply dubbed CRISPR, is a tool that allows scientists to precisely target and ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, Dr. Inderbir Singh Gill, a globally renowned urologist and leader in robotic surgery ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A surgery at Mount Sinai made history and gave a 64-year-old man a new lease on life. Doctors performed the first heart, liver, and kidney triple organ transplant in New York State.

The historic surgery, resulting from years of research, opens the door to improved treatment of non-functioning bladders.

With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked ...

Surgeons in southern California successfully completed the world's first-ever human bladder transplant on 41-year-old Oscar ...

A baby with CPS1 is thriving after receiving the first personalized gene therapy for the condition, offering new hope to ...

A n infant with a life-threatening and incurable genetic disease has become the first human to successfully receive a ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs from his lab include producing the first connected set ... in the lab that accurately mimic human liver function. While human liver organoid transplantation remains at least several ...

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 ...