In recent years, scientists have transplanted kidneys, livers, and hearts from gene-edited pigs into a human body. But this new research appears to show the first recorded instance of a gene-edited lung transplant.

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled the procedure.

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to treat ailing humans.