Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man over a month ago, and it is still working normally.
The successful experiment, carried out at an academic medical centre in New York City on July 14, is hoped to be a critical step towards animal animal-human transplants in living patients.
It is the longest period that a gene-edited pig kidney has worked inside a human body, with researchers at NYU Langone Health now tracking its performance for a second month.
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