Pig kidney transplanted into human shows way to wider use
The successful transplant is the latest breakthrough for scientists racing to find alternatives to human organs that are in constant shortage.
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The successful transplant is the latest breakthrough for scientists racing to find alternatives to human organs that are in constant shortage.
A pig kidney has been transplanted into a person for the first time without causing rapid rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially significant development that might ultimately help ease a critical scarcity of human organs for transplant. The operation was performed at NYU Langone Health in New York City and entailed the use of a pig whose genes had been changed such that its tissues no longer carried a chemical known to induce an almost instantaneous rejection.