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Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time

Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

A 62-year-old man, who received a transplanted pig kidney, is doing well, and was even discharged from the hospital this week.

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Patient Leaves Hospital as Transplanted Gene-Hacked Pig Organ Seems to Be Functioning Well

By Victor Tangermann

Surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living man.

Patient Walking Around Hospital After Transplant of Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese startup PorMedTec claims to have cloned three piglets to have their organs be viable for transplantation to humans.

Startup Clones Three Piglets Gene-Hacked to Have Organs Transplanted Into Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors used a genetically-modified pig liver to successfully filter the human blood of a brain-dead patient.

Gene-Hacked Pig Liver Successfully Filters Blood of Human Patient

By Sharon Adarlo

About a month after his surgery, a man who received a genetically modified pig heart has no sign of rejection or infection.

Man Is Doing Well With Implanted Pig Heart, Doctors Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Biotech company United Therapeutics is planning to begin transplanting organs from genetically modified pigs into humans as soon as this year.

A Startup Is Planning Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants This Year

By Victor Tangermann

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Transplants of Genetically Modified Pig Organs for Humans Could Happen Within Two Years

A New Gene Editing Breakthrough Could Allow Us to Transplant Pig Organs Into Humans

A New Gene Editing Breakthrough Could Allow Us to Transplant Pig Organs Into Humans

By Patrick Caughill