​​A brain-dead man was attached to a gene-edited pig liver for three days
Published Date: 1/18/2024
Source: technologyreview.com
Surgeon Abraham Shaked thinks he has probably carried out more than 2,500 liver transplants. But in December 2023, a team he oversees at the University of Pennsylvania did something he’d never tried before.  Working on the body of a brain-dead man, they attached his veins to a refrigerator-size machine with pig liver mounted in the…