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Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human
A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.
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Pig Liver Successfully Transplanted Into Human Patient in World First
A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...
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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Hooked to a Human for 10 Days and It Actually Worked
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
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Ten days of normal survival of a pig liver in a human being
Transplanting an animal organ into a human is now a closer reality following the successful xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a patient diagnosed with brain death in China.
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expert reaction to study on first genetically modified pig-to-human liver transplantation
A study published in Nature looks at a genetically modified pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation. Prof Peter Friend, Professor of Transplantation, University of Oxford, said: ...