AsianFin -- China's Air Force Medical University’s Xijing Hospital announced on Thursday the successful completion of the world’s first gene-edited pig liver transplant from a brain-dead donor. The groundbreaking surgery, led by Academician Dou Kefeng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a team of over ten medical experts from various departments, successfully implanted a gene-edited pig liver into the body of a brain-dead patient. This marks the first time a gene-edited pig liver has been fully transplanted and functioned as a complete replacement for a human liver.
This achievement follows Xijing Hospital’s previous milestone, where the world’s first gene-edited pig-to-brain-dead patient heterotopic auxiliary liver transplant was carried out last year. The successful procedure is a significant advancement in the field of xenotransplantation.
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