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Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Time Ever

Facing a shortage of organs needed by tens of thousands of patients, scientists have been studying pig organs as a potential ...
The New York Times

Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...
Healio

‘We need this’: Pig-to-human kidney transplants enter clinical trials

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two different gene-edited pig kidneys have been successfully transplanted into living human patients under FDA’s ...
Reuters

That'll do pig, zoo tells Afghanistan's only porker

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's only known pig trotted out of quarantine on Saturday, two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears, to bask again in the mud at the Kabul Zoo. The pig ...