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A first-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people who have liver failure
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A first-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people who have liver failure

by The Associated Press Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainSurgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants. In this case,...