A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified pig liver, say the team that conducted the surgery. The pig organ filtered the man’s blood for a few days while he waited for a human liver transplant, they say.
That is pure science fiction.
This is practical gene editing of a pig to make it immunogenically more human. They knocked out three major pig proteins and knocked in three human proteins,