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.
“We are unsure of what to do next,” she said.Inside that center, empty food packages were strewn about — and USAID posters still hung on the walls.
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s of the plan going forward, I would say everything is up in the air at this point,” Jiang said, who had hoped to remain in the United States for a few years but now is open to working in international development overseas. “At this point, it’s difficult to say what will happen.”This week, the Trump administration asked federal agencies to cancel about $100 million in contracts with the university. The government already canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants, moved to cut off Harvard’s enrollment of international students and threatened its tax-exempt status. Then it widened the pressure campaign, suspending visa applications worldwide and threatening to deny U.S. visas to thousands of
These actions resonate with Jiang and her classmates — about 30% of Harvard’s students are international, and China has among the highest numbers.
Yurong “Luanna” Jiang, who delivered a speech at her Harvard University commencement, poses at a gate to Harvard Yard, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa): His far-right coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he ends the war too soon. That would leave him more vulnerable to prosecution on
and to investigations into the failures surrounding the Oct. 7 attack.A broader resolution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears more distant than ever.
The Palestinians are weak and divided, and Israel’s current government — the most nationalist and religious in its history — is opposed to Palestinian demands for a state in Gaza, theand east Jerusalem, territories Israel occupied in the 1967 Mideast war.