A man in China became the first recipient of a pig lung. The genetically modified pig organ was transplanted into the 39-year-old, according to an Aug. 26 report by the journal Nature. The procedure ...

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The genetically modified pig lung remained functional for nine days inside a brain-dead human patient. Scientists believe xenotransplantation – cross-species transplants – could alleviate the organ ...

Scientists in China say they have successfully transplanted a pig lung into a living person for the first time. The researchers from Guangzhou Medical University transplanted a pig lung that had been ...

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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 ...

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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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A lung from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a person for the first time 1. The recipient, a 39-year-old man in China, was brain dead, but the organ survived for nine days. Lungs ...