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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Hooked to a Human for 10 Days and It Actually Worked
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
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How a hidden hand of hepatic signaling could help fight metabolic disease
New research identifies the liver protein PTPRD as a key regulator of metabolic liver disease. Reduced levels of PTPRD disrupt glucose and lipid metabolism, promote liver fat accumulation, and impair ...
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Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human
A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.
Daily Mail6d
World's first pig to human liver transplant is carried out in major breakthrough
A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...
The Sun6d
Human receives liver transplant from a PIG in world-first experiment
Scientists in Pennsylvania last year attached a pig liver to a human patient and had it successfully filter blood, but it was not transplanted into the body. Study author Professor Lin Wang said ...
New York Post5d
Chinese researchers successfully transplant pig kidney to human, take step for first-ever pig liver transplant
The same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants ...
CNN6d
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...