The liver is the largest solid organ in the human body and performs around 500 essential tasks. ... This helps hold the liver in place and protects it from physical damage.

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day become a routine procedure. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical ...

Scientists achieve first successful external liver perfusion using a porcine liver. In a groundbreaking study, doctors successfully connected a pig liver to a human body that had experienced brain ...

The liver is responsible for more than 500 functions in the human body, including filtering harmful substances from the blood ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, ... they still kept the human liver in place.

There are over 100,000 Americans currently on the waiting list for an organ, with a new person added every eight minutes. Yet only 48,000 transplants take place annually, creating a significant ...

It takes liver cells–or hepatocytes–from a donated organ and injects them into the lymph nodes that are found all over the body. In the lymph nodes, the liver cells will hopefully divide, grow ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, ... they still kept the human liver in place.

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said.