Medical Breakthrough: First-Ever Pig Lung Transplant into Brain-Dead Human, says study
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In a medical breakthrough, Chinese scientists successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a brain-dead man, marking the world’s first pig-to-human lung transplant. Conducted at Guangzhou Medical University in May 2024, the lung functioned effectively for nine days without any immediate rejection or infection. The donor lung came from a six-gene-edited pig designed to evade the human immune system, a major advance in the challenging field of lung xenotransplantation.
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