After being diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer in 2024, Amy Piccioli underwent a liver transplant from a close family friend that helped her achieve “no evidence of disease.” ...

If watching The Pitt is giving you a renewed interest in the human body in all of its gory glory, there’s a new tool that will help satisfy your curiosity. An international team of scientists ...

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, reversed acute liver failure using a gene-edited pig liver kept outside the patient’s body. The procedure was announced Feb. 4 by Xijing Hospital, an ...

Hall of Famer Allen Iverson is in hot water with the Australian media for allegedly ignoring 12 children battling cancer during his visit to a cancer ward in Melbourne last Thursday. According to a ...

Looking ahead: Every year, tens of thousands of Americans receive organ transplants, yet demand still outstrips supply. Now, a research team at Carnegie Mellon University believes the way out of that ...

Because of the simple laws of supply and demand, many people every year die waiting for an organ that might’ve saved their life. While advanced perfusion and xenotransplantation breakthroughs could ...

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has the highest survival rates for pediatric liver transplants in the U.S., according to newly released data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The ...

Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in the United States wait for a donor organ. An up to $25.8 million research ...

Human periportal assembloid, showcasing the three key cell types of the liver: portal fibroblasts (magenta), cholangiocytes (green), and hepatocyte nuclei (blue). All cell borders are delineated in ...

Researchers successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human, proving that such an organ can function for an extended period. The graft supported essential liver processes before ...

Liver transplants often save the lives of seriously ill patients. However, there remains a risk that the body will reject the new organ. Doctors distinguish between acute and chronic rejection. While ...