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Baboons live for months after getting genetically modified pig hearts

5 December 2018

Genetically modified pig hearts have kept baboons alive for more than 90 days, a threshold that may now allow trials of this type of transplantation in people
Bio-engineered lungs are the first successful organs made in the lab

Bio-engineered lungs are the first successful organs made in the lab

1 August 2018

Pigs have been able to breathe using lungs made in the lab. This is the most successful complex organ to be bioengineered yet – but there’s one big step left

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