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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 Chinese man lived for almost six months after becoming the first living human to receive a transplant of a pig liver.
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 ...
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday said they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human living with kidney disease, the first such procedure in the world. The ...
Over 100,000 people are waiting for organ donations in the United States. Many will likely never receive one, since there are so few available. So scientists are turning to pigs for potential ...
The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...
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