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First pig-to-human liver transplant recipient ‘doing very well’

The transplant aims to prolong the the person’s life and provides important lessons for physicians.
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A 71-year-old man in China has become the first living person to receive a liver transplant from a genetically modified pig — and the fifth person reported to have received a pig organ. More than two weeks after the surgery, the man is “doing very well”, says Sun Beicheng, a surgeon at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University in China, who led the transplantation.

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Nature 630, 18 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01613-4

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  • Correction 31 May 2024: An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect list of the pig organs that had previously been transplanted into people; it should have said “hearts, kidneys and a thymus”. The text has been corrected.

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