Science

A Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney Has Worked in a Brain Dead Human for a Month

WHOLE HOG

This is a big step towards addressing the worldwide organ transplant shortage.

Tony Ho Tran
Tony Ho Tran
Transplant surgeons (from left) Adam Griesemer, MD, Jeffrey Stern, MD, and Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, prepare the pig kidney for transplant.
Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health
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