Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/health/chinese-surgeons-first-pig-human-liver-transplant.html
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>Surgeons in China have for the first time transplanted a section of liver extracted from a genetically modified pig into a human cancer patient, they reported on Thursday.
The surgeons, who described the procedure in a paper in The Journal of Hepatology, grafted the portion of pig liver onto the left lobe of a 71-year-old patient’s liver after removing the larger right lobe, where a tumor the size of a grapefruit had grown. The lobe with the porcine transplant functioned, producing bile and synthesizing blood clotting factors, the surgeons reported. The patient’s body did not reject the organ graft, which enabled the remaining left lobe of the patient’s own liver to regenerate and grow, the scientists said.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/health/chinese-surgeons-first-pig-human-liver-transplant.html
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>>Surgeons in China have for the first time transplanted a section of liver extracted from a genetically modified pig into a human cancer patient, they reported on Thursday.
The surgeons, who described the procedure in a paper in The Journal of Hepatology, grafted the portion of pig liver onto the left lobe of a 71-year-old patient’s liver after removing the larger right lobe, where a tumor the size of a grapefruit had grown. The lobe with the porcine transplant functioned, producing bile and synthesizing blood clotting factors, the surgeons reported. The patient’s body did not reject the organ graft, which enabled the remaining left lobe of the patient’s own liver to regenerate and grow, the scientists said.
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