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Surgeons Put a Pig Lung Inside a Human Body—and It Survived for 9 Days

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First-ever pig-to-human lung transplant attempted in brain-dead person in China

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Combined procedure could save suspected lung cancer patients time and improve outcomes

Lung cancer used to have grim outcomes but earlier detection is improving those odds. A new combined procedure with diagnosis ...
Futurism

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

For the first time in history, scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human patient. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of ...
STAT

Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
CNN

For the first time, a genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...
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 ...
Newsweek

3D Printed Lungs Made With Living Cells May Be Treatment ‘Game Changer’

3D-printed lungs made with living cells could help to improve lung disease prevention and treatment—and potentially one day offer a lab-grown option for use in organ transplants. University of ...
StudyFinds on MSN

Severe COVID-19 and flu may leave long-term lung changes linked to cancer risk, study finds

Severe COVID-19 raises lung cancer risk by 24%, study of 76 million Americans finds In A Nutshell People hospitalized with ...
Opinion

We Know Air Pollution Damages Your Lungs And Heart. What About The Brain?

For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...
Science News

Scientists perform the first pig-to-human lung transplant

Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, ...