Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

Doctors could potentially use the pig liver as bridge until a human liver is available or the ... with pig liver transplants, he says. The animals that receive the livers don’t tend to live ...

“This unique pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation provides critical information that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone.” Liver may not have worked long-term Professor Peter ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first ... Pigs have emerged as the best animal organ donors ...