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The patient, a 39-year-old declared brain-dead after a brain hemorrhage, thus became the first human recipient of a pig lung.
In a medical first, a pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead human, where it functioned for nine days. Surgeons at ...
Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is an exciting step forward for the field, but many questions remain open ...
The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients.
In a groundbreaking achievement, Chinese researchers successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a ...
In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system ...
A lung from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a person for the first time 1. The recipient, a 39-year-old ...
A team of surgeons in China has successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a human for the first time.
In the midst of all the controversy surrounding the science of healthcare, certain technologies continue to progress in the ...
The genetically modified lung remained viable for nine days, but the recipient’s immune responses need more research, scientists say.