Alumnus Kendall Pipkin returned to Anatomy class to demonstrate lung function with real pig lungs, inspiring students to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

Surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig lung into a human, marking another huge step in the decades-long quest to use animal organs for life-saving procedures. In the first operation of its kind ...

Scientists in China say they have successfully transplanted a pig lung into a living person for the first time. The researchers from Guangzhou Medical University transplanted a pig lung that had been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig. To create a new lung, external, experts used a "scaffold" that provided structural support and slowly built up the lung ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a ...

In a medical milestone, scientists in China have achieved the world’s first successful transplantation of a pig lung into a human, using a brain-dead male recipient. The lung, genetically modified to ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, Chinese scientists successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a brain-dead human recipient. The lung functioned for nine days, demonstrating a ...