For the first time in history, scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human patient. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of ...
The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...
A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...
UCLA researchers have successfully grown miniature lungs from stem cells—complete with their own functioning blood vessel networks. The groundbreaking work, detailed in Cell, marks the first time ...
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 ...
In 2020, when COVID-19 was making headlines globally, a company that specialized in producing organoids — tiny, lab-grown organ analogues — of respiratory tissue was launched in Japan. A practicing ...
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 ...
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