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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 study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study ...
A Chinese team has achieved a world first with a pig liver graft that functioned in a living recipient for more than a month, ...
A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a ...
In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...
For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in Boston said Thursday. Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Mass., who is suffering ...
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) include foods like some apples and salmon whose DNA has been modified for certain ...
Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.
The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...
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