{"id":221058,"date":"2025-08-27T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/worlds-first-china-doctors-transplant-pig-lung-into-brain-dead-man"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:05:48","slug":"worlds-first-china-doctors-transplant-pig-lung-into-brain-dead-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/worlds-first-china-doctors-transplant-pig-lung-into-brain-dead-man","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first: China doctors transplant pig lung into brain-dead man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/19QpT_uAIE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>World\u2019s first pig lung transplant in brain-dead man lasts nine days in China.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a medical first, a pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead human, where it functioned for nine days.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons at Guangzhou Medical University, China, performed the cross-species lung transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient, a 39-year-old man who had suffered a brain hemorrhage, received the left lung from a Chinese Bama Xiang pig that had undergone genetic modifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s first pig lung transplant in brain-dead man lasts nine days in China. In a medical first, a pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead human, where it functioned for nine days. Surgeons at Guangzhou Medical University, China, performed the cross-species lung transplantation. The recipient, a 39-year-old man who had suffered a brain hemorrhage, received [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}