This type of diet may be physically changing your liver — and may lead to higher cancer risk

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

25 Unsettling Facts About The Human Body That People Wish They’d Never Learned And I Want To Unsee This

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See real human organs up close at this anatomy lab

I got exclusive access to preserved human body parts at Experience Anatomy in Charlotte, NC, including a liver, stomach, lungs, kidney, femur, brain, heart, and skull! In this video, I share a glimpse ...
Science Daily

Scientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Medical Students Are Learning Anatomy From Digital Cadavers. Can Technology Ever Replace Real Human Bodies?

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms Students learn anatomy from an Asclepius AI Table, which merges ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Surgeons in China Perform First Pig Liver Transplant in Human Patient

The liver came from a genetically modified cloned pig with ten gene edits. Pexels For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ ...
Scientific American

Pig Liver Surgery Moves Us Closer to Transplants from Other Species

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...
MedPage Today

Diet Soda and Liver Risk; Pig-to-Human Liver Transplant; Golimumab Approval Expanded

Drinking diet soda or sugary drinks daily may increase the risk of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a study presented at the United European Gastroenterology ...
The New York Times

Chinese Surgeons Perform First Pig-to-Human Liver Transplant

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...
CNN

A man in China lived more than 170 days after transplant with pig liver, doctors report

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first ...
New Scientist

Pig liver transplant into a living person edges it closer to the norm

Transplanting organs from non-human animals into people could revolutionise medicine, potentially saving thousands of lives that are lost while people wait for organs. Scientists have previously ...
News Medical

Study reports the world's first genetically engineered pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation

An important new study in the Journal of Hepatology, published by Elsevier, reports the world's first auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The ...