A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

Livers have proved trickier—and had not previously been tested out inside a human body ... Both US recipients of pig heart transplants died. But Towana Looney, 53, is back home in Alabama ...

Livers have proved trickier—and had not previously been tested inside a human body ... Both US recipients of pig heart transplants died. However, Towana Looney, 53, is back home in Alabama ...

The announcement follows a slew of recent breakthroughs, including transplanting a pig’s heart into a man and a woman currently living with a pig’s kidney. Professor Lin Wang, one of the study ...

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 ...

Livers have proved trickier -- and had not previously been tested out inside a human body ... Both US recipients of pig heart transplants died. But Towana Looney, 53, is back home in Alabama after ...