Doctors in Northwest China have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver fully into a human body, achieving what they say is a major breakthrough in xenotransplantation.

Salk scientists have found that eliminating the bile acid-producing protein BAAT and supplementing with the bile acid UDCA ...

China has successfully performed the world's first gene-edited pig xenotransplantation surgery for whole liver transplantation in a brain-dead patient, achieving the complete replacement of a human ...

Your liver is the largest internal organ in your body -- and has a bunch of important jobs to do. It filters out dangerous chemicals, helps break down the food you eat, and builds proteins that ...

scientists at the Salk Institute took a closer look at how the immune system and liver interact. While studying mouse and ...

Salk scientists link bile acids and immune cell performance in liver cancer, finding that supplementing the bile acid UDCA—already a current treatment for liver disease—and inhibiting bile ...

It demonstrates the potential of organ-on-a-chip technology to simulate the human liver's blood vessels, allowing for a better understanding of how immune cells navigate the blood stream and cross ...

Spatial transcriptomics was combined with single-nucleus RNA sequencing to annotate healthy and fibrotic human livers ... strategies in cholestatic liver disease.

People in the United States who have HIV and need kidney or liver transplants can now receive organs from donors who also have HIV without having to be part of a research study. The new federal ...