A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month ...
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, and ...
Scientists have experimented for centuries with using parts from animals to improve human health, but the technology has leapt ahead recently with advances in gene editing and immunology. Pigs have ...