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Picture this: a 3D printer that can build a viable human organ at the push of a button. Sounds futuristic, but Dallas researchers are aiming to make that a reality. UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

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

Scientists have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a human for the first time Chinese researchers inserted the liver, which was taken from a pig that had been ...

Unlike traditional transplant approaches, the goal is not to permanently replace a failing liver, but to create a temporary, ...

Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and their collaborators have used human stem cells to develop liver organoids that faithfully replicate key zones observed in human livers ...

Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. By Ted Alcorn On some level, the human liver in the operating room ...

The connection between the human liver and the intestine is unique, and the “gut-liver axis” plays a vital role in regulating liver disease pathology. When homeostasis is disturbed, changes in dietary ...