First pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person, but we’re still a long way from solving organ shortages

HMN 2024 – Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital In a world first, we heard last week that US surgeons had transplanted a kidney from a gene-edited pig into a living human. News reports said the procedure was a breakthrough in xenotransplantation—when an organ, cells or tissues are transplanted from one species to another. Champions of xenotransplantation regard it as […]

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