First modified pig liver transplanted into humans - Biotech. He remained there for 10 days, the patient was clinically dead.
The operation, performed in China at the Xijing Hospital of the Xi'an Air Force Medical University, was successful. The pig liver functioned regularly, and before being removed, he showed no signs of rejection. The researchers plan to repeat the procedure on another clinically dead person later this year, and next time they will also remove the human liver. In recent years, several heart and kidney transplants from pigs have already been carried out.