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Surgeons in China Perform First Pig Liver Transplant in Human Patient
The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...
A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...
A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...
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 ...
The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...
Chinese scientists have performed the first pig-to-human lung transplant ever, with the organ remaining functional for over a week after surgery. Xenotransplantation, as the process of transplanting ...
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