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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauran Neergaard

Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment

Pig Organ Transplants - (AP2007)

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too.

A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

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