The clones were created using pig cells gene-edited by CRISPR technology. And the resulting pig liver was hooked up to a perfusion machine that pumped blood between a brain-dead patient and the ...

After that, he and his team will start an attempt to apply it to humans. The idea is to take all the cells from a pig liver and replace them with human cells, essentially creating a human liver, Ross ...

When a pig’s liver was included in the setup ... with lower activation of genes linked to cell death and inflammation. The ...

"We can restore some functions of cells, across multiple vital ... After the six hours, the scientists dissected the pigs' organs such as the heart, liver and kidneys. and showed they were ...

Chris Denning, a professor of stem cell biology at the ... be to have one 10-gene edited pig be able to save a patient with kidney failure, a patient with liver failure, a patient with heart ...

a genetically modified pig heart and a porcine liver. The heart, like the kidney, will be transplanted in humans. The liver will be used to provide “perfusion” to patients in end-stage liver ...

By artificially flushing the pigs' organs with blood — a process called perfusion — they restored molecular and cellular function in the heart, brain, liver ... for mammal cells to recover ...