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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 ...
Multistate measles outbreak leads to dangerous vitamin A toxicity
As a measles outbreak spreads across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting ...
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Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human
Doctors could potentially use the pig liver as bridge until a human liver is available or the patient’s liver has recovered, Lin Wang, a surgeon at Xijing hospital in Xi-an, China, said in a ...
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Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...
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Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment
He said the pig liver produced bile and albumin — important for basic organ function — although not as much as human livers do. The liver is a complex challenge because of its varied jobs ...