A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...

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“There is no evidence the pigs carried the gene into the [human] food supply,” Thomas Wittum of Ohio State University, a coauthor on ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair.

The first, Yang told Business Insider in March, is the virology, or the fact that pigs carry genes encoded with viruses that could transmit disease to humans - that's the PERV genes that Egenesis ...

The Xijing team also carried out the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant in 2013. Rafael Matesanz, founder of the National Transplant Organisation in Spain, said: “This is the world’s first ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...