World's first pig to human liver transplant has been carried out. Story by Xantha Leatham, Executive Science ... ‘The liver collected from the modified pig functioned very well in the human body.

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said.

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.

In the short term, these multi-zonal liver organoids will help scientists shed new light on diseases like diabetes, drug-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, and viral hepatitis.

The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants.In this case, the pig liver was used outside the donated body, not ...