Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the ...

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OrsoBio has announced the publication in Nature Medicine of Phase I clinical trial data for TLC-2716, an oral liver-targeted ...

Researchers are developing functional, patient-specific livers using 3D bioprinting and stem cell technology to eliminate the ...

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 funding, part of a new ARPA-H bioprinting initiative, aims to create transplant-ready organs—potentially within ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center announced it received a five-year federal grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

From fast-food to ultra-processed snacks, a high-fat diet eaten over the long term may trigger biological changes in the ...

A human model of immune-driven liver injury Some drugs that pass early safety testing can still cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (iDILI)-a rare immune reaction that can lead to severe ...