Monkey makes medical history after having a successful liver transplant from a cloned PIG

The Tibetan macaque lies in an intensive care unit ten days after undergoing a liver transplant at Xijing Hospital in Xian, China. Dou Kefeng, a professor at the hospital said that the macaque was 'spontaneously' breathing and was in a stable condition

A Tibetan macaque has entered the record books after successfully undergoing a liver transplant using an organ taken from a cloned pig. 

The Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, China, announced that it made the successful liver transplant from the pig to a monkey on Thursday. 

The transplant took place on 28 May and the macaque is now in a stable enough condition for the transplant to be considered a success

Experts said that the success of this operation is a breakthrough in the field of major organ transplant surgeries.

Doctors at the Chinese hospital had attempted the transplant earlier in May with a different Tibetan macaque and the liver from transgenic pig but the monkey died two days after the operation.