New Delhi, March 27 -- Doctors in China have transplanted a pig's liver in a human being in what is being described as a 'medical breakthrough'.

The liver, from a miniature pig, had six edited genes. It was transplanted into a brain-dead adult person at the Fourth Military Medical University in the Chinese city of Xi'an on March 10, 2024.

Doctors presented their findings from the experiment in a study (Gene-modified pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation) published in the journal Nature.

The trial was terminated after 10 days at the request of the patient's family, news agency AFP reported. The name, gender and other details of the patient have not been revealed.

However, the doctors stressed that the pig liver did not completely repl...