Foreign media: Chinese scientists have completed the world's first surgery of transplanting a pig's lung into a human body, and the transplanted lung maintained function in the human body for 9 days.
In the operation, researchers transplanted the lung of a pig that had undergone six genetic modifications into the body of a 39-year-old man who was brain dead. After the transplantation, the lung remained active and functional for 216 hours without showing acute rejection or infection. However, antibody-mediated rejection occurred on the third and sixth days after the operation, causing damage to the lungs, and the experiment was ultimately terminated on the ninth day.
Despite this, scientists remain optimistic about achieving long-term functional maintenance of pig lungs by improving donor genetic editing and using better immunosuppressive drugs.
Original article: www.toutiao.com/article/1841577505599491/
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