In a medical first, a pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead human, where it functioned for nine days. Surgeons at Guangzhou Medical University, China, performed the cross-species lung ...

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Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...

Death is the one guarantee in this world. Ask scientist Borys Wróbel, though, and it could also mark just the beginning of a new way of ‘living’. As the chief scientist at Nectome, a Portland-based ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a ...