Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Breakthrough by Chinese scientists could lead to pig livers being used to keep people alive while they await a suitable human donor which can take months or even years

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The group also performed a skin transplant using gene-edit pig skin into a person with severe burns.