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fromNature
1 week ago
Medicine

'Amazing feat': US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

A genetically modified pig kidney enabled a 67-year-old man to stop dialysis and functioned for over six months, the longest pig organ survival in humans.
fromNature
2 weeks ago
Medicine

Pig lung transplanted into a person in world first

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a human, surviving nine days and suggesting pig organs could expand the donor organ supply.
fromNature
1 week ago
Medicine

'Amazing feat': US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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