NewsHealth & MedicineSurgeons transplanted a pigs liver into a humanThe gene-edited organ was hooked up inside the body of a brain-dead recipient This genetically modified miniature pig served as a liver donor for a brain-dead human recipient.K-S Taoet al./Nature 2025By Meghan Rosen17 seconds agoSurgeons have now published the first report ofa gene-edited pig liver transplantedinto a person.The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant recipient, researchers reported March 26 inNature. Such a transplant could one day buy time for people waiting on the liver transplant list. Doctors could potentially use the pig liver as bridge until a human liver is available or the patients liver has recovered, Lin Wang, a surgeon at Xijing hospital in Xi-an, China, said in a March 25 press briefing. It is our dream to achieve this, he said. Earlier this year his team also performeda different pig-to-human liver transplant, though the results from that surgery have not yet been published.