The human liver plays a pivotal role in drug metabolism, largely attributable to the diverse family of UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) that catalyse glucuronidation reactions. This conjugation ...

Carnegie Mellon received $28.5 million to develop liver tissue bioprinting, with hopes it can reduce the need for transplants ...

"At one level, it shows that we have taken a significant step forward at growing liver tissue in the lab that accurately mimic human liver function. While human liver organoid transplantation remains ...

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 ...

The majority of human illnesses is caused by damage of a single organ like the liver whose failure accounts for 2M deaths worldwide every year. Orthotopic transplants are the only curative therapy ...

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

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in China successfully transplanted the liver from a miniature pig that had ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...

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 ...