内容摘要：On a steep, sun-soaked hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Tompros is replanting nearly 300 avocado trees with the belief that Americans’ hunger for the fruit — and his orchard — will continue to grow.

On a steep, sun-soaked hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Tompros is replanting nearly 300 avocado trees with the belief that Americans’ hunger for the fruit — and his orchard — will continue to grow.

A Chinese patient is theperson in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

so their organs are more humanlike in hopes of alleviating a transplant shortage. Two initial xenotransplants in the U.S. —– were short-lived. But two additional pig kidney recipients so far are thriving – antransplanted in November and a

transplanted in January. A U.S. clinical trial is about to begin.Nearly three weeks after the kidney surgery the Chinese patient “is very well” and the pig kidney likewise is functioning very well, Dr. Lin Wang of Xijing Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an told reporters in a briefing this week.

Wang, part of the hospital’s xenotransplant team, said the kidney recipient remains in the hospital for testing. Chinese media have reported she is a 69-year-old woman diagnosed with kidney failure eight years ago.

But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted into a brain-dead person survived for 10 days, with no early signs of rejection. He said the pig liver produced bile and albumin — important for basic organ function — although not as much as human livers do.last month that he was “not thinking about running in 2028.”

But he hasn’t ruled it out, either, and has signaled possible interest in other ways.Following the Democratic ticket’s defeat in November, Walz returned to the road in March when he

a series of town halls in competitive congressional districts represented by Republicans, after House Speaker Mike Johnson advised GOP representatives tobecause of protests at them.