Pulmonary interstitial glycogenosis (PIG) is a very rare disorder causing breathing problems in babies. Read about causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

Mar 26, 2025 · Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Pulmonary Interstitial Glycogenosis (PIG) is a children’s interstitial lung disease (chILD) and was first described in 2002. This disorder is relatively rare and only few cases have been reported in the medical literature.

Mar 26, 2025 · The pig liver "functioned really well" and "smoothly secreted bile" as well as producing the key protein albumin, study co-author Lin Wang of the Xi’an hospital told a press conference.

Mar 26, 2025 · Chinese researchers are reporting two new steps in the quest for pig-to-human organ transplants: a successful pig kidney transplant and an experiment with a pig liver.

Mar 26, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too.. A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a ...

Mar 10, 2025 · Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.

Mar 27, 2025 · Towana Looney, a 53-year-old patient, received a pig kidney transplant in late November 2024. Interestingly, in the liver case, the recipient’s liver was not removed throughout the procedure.

Feb 26, 2025 · Over the past few years, a handful of people in the United States and China have received specially modified pig kidneys, hearts and livers, but getting those organs to function safely in a person is a huge challenge, as laid out in the 2024 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences.Now, thanks to technological and medical advances, United Therapeutics, in Silver Spring, Maryland, is starting the ...

Mar 26, 2025 · A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment. ... a transplant surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center in ...