The Chinese team successfully transplanted genetically edited pig lungs into humans.

date
26/08/2025
On the 25th, a Chinese research team published a paper online in the British academic journal "Nature Medicine", reporting the world's first successful case of transplanting gene-edited pig lungs into a brain-dead human body. This achievement is expected to help alleviate the shortage of donor lungs for transplantation, and has been praised by international experts as a "milestone" in the field.