Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover nearly three weeks after that surgery. That marks the third known person living with a pig kidney after two Americans who received their own transplants several months ago. Also Wednesday the Chinese research team reported implanting a pig liver in the body of a brain-dead person. They reported in the journal Nature that it showed no early rejection and functioned, although not as robustly as a human liver, for 10 days. Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover nearly three weeks after that surgery. That marks the third known person living with a pig kidney after two Americans who received their own transplants several months ago. Also Wednesday the Chinese research team reported implanting a pig liver in the body of a brain-dead person. They reported in the journal Nature that it showed no early rejection and functioned, although not as robustly as a human liver, for 10 days. AP Technology and Science
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