that gave the Thunder a 116-109 lead.

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest

– with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too.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 – an

transplanted in November and a

transplanted in January. A U.S. clinical trial is about to begin.Later, she was taken to a room on the local military base where she said soldiers raped her. “I couldn’t take it. My whole body hurt,” Ixtapá said. She got pregnant, aborted and wasn’t able to have children. Tum Ramírez was convicted of raping two women and for signaling four women to be raped by others.

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Ixpatá has done.One of the accused, Pedro Sánchez, told the court Friday before the ruling was handed down that he was not involved. He was convicted of raping two women.

“I am innocent of what they are accusing us, I don’t know any of these women,” Sánchez testified before the verdict. Simeón Enríquez Gómez, the third paramilitary, was also convicted of raping two of the women.Anthropologist Aura Cumes, who testified as a forensic expert during the trial, said women suffered differently in the war than men did.