transplantable organs and tissues

  • Doctors Claim to Have Successfully Transplanted a Pig Kidney Into a Human

    Doctors Claim to Have Successfully Transplanted a Pig Kidney Into a Human

    Scientists look to be one major step closer to a long-awaited goal in medicine: successfully transplanting organs from another animal to a human. Researchers from New York University announced this week that they recently transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig that was then able to function as normal without rejection from the human…