JEREMY Clarkson is hoping his pet pig Richard Ham will bring home the bacon. The porker has become a TV star after the runt ...

The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...

A Chinese man lived for almost six months after becoming the first living human to receive a transplant of a pig liver.

Medics have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

The liver performed key bodily functions, proving that pig organs can temporarily support human life, though serious complications eventually arose.

In a groundbreaking medical milestone, doctors in China have reported that a 71-year-old patient survived for 171 days ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a ...

Writing in the Journal of Hepatology, researchers said they have found that genetically modified pig livers can support key ...

A 71-year-old man in China lived for almost six months after receiving a liver transplant from a genetically modified pig, ...

The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year thereafter - demonstrating both the promise and hurdles that need to be overcome for wider clinical use.