Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

Doctors in Guangzhou, China, transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human for the first time Aug. 25, highlighting the potential of xenotransplantation to transform medical care.

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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 ...

(CNN) — A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig ...

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 ...