Tag: kidney transplant

Contents1 What is the News?2 How was the transplantation done?3 A brief history of animal-to-human transplants4 Why was the pig chosen for the transplantation? What is the News? For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system. This is a potentially huge… Continue reading U.S. surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient