​​A brain-dead man was attached to a gene-edited pig liver for three days

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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…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/18/1086791/brain-dead-man-gene-edited-pig-liver/