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 year after the procedure.
A study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Hepatology has documented the first successful ...
Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into ...
The patient, who was not eligible for a human liver transplant, lived for nearly half a year after the procedure ...
The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...
The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...
The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year thereafter - demonstrating both the promise and hurdles that ...