Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...
Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...
FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the ...
Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...
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World's first pig-to-human liver transplant offers new hope for organ failure treatment
A major medical milestone has been reached with the successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human. The case, reported in the Journal of Hepatology, marks the ...
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 ...
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