A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject, constituting a historic precedent in the field of organ transplantation. The liver demonstrated functional viability for a period of 10 days within the body of a brain-dead patient,

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day become a routine procedure. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an, north-west China, used a liver taken from a pig.

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