Scientists transplanted a kidney from a 199-day-old female pig into a 57-year-old brain-dead man in July 2023. The pig had been genetically modified to remove alpha-Gal, a sugar molecule that humans ...
In a medical first, a pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead human, where it functioned for nine days. Surgeons at Guangzhou Medical University, China, performed the cross-species lung ...