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Pig lung transplanted into brain-dead person for 9 days in world-first experiment

Pig lung transplanted into brain-dead person for 9 days in world-first experiment

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, doctors in China transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person. Similar experiments involving brain-dead patients have previously taken place in the U.S., but they involved different pig organs, such as kidneys and hearts, and a previous experiment in China involved a pig liver. These experiments have paved the way to transplants …

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