A MAN lived with a transplanted pig liver for more than a month in the most successful operation of its kind, scientists say. The terminally ill 71-year-old received the genetically modified organ in ...

In what researchers are calling a "landmark" in medical science, surgeons implanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human patient, marking the first reported case of auxiliary liver ...

A magnetic microrobot navigates lung airways, drills microlesions, gathers biomarkers, and rapidly classifies cancer tissue with Raman sensing and machine learning in a single integrated workflow.

A team in China connected a gene edited pig lung to a man who had been declared brain dead. The lung worked for 9 days and moved oxygen into the blood before the immune system damaged it. This is part ...

Part lion, part goat, part serpent, the Chimera was a terrifying, fire-breathing monster capable of decimating cities, according to Greek mythology. Today, the term “chimera” has a much more ...

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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.

A genetic-modified lung transplanted from a pig into a brain-dead adult man lasted for 9 days, demonstrating the feasibility of the procedure, according to a new report published in Nature Medicine.

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 ...