Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. “It looks even better than a human kidney,” Montgomery said on July 14 as he replaced a deceased man’s own kidneys with a single kidney …
Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs to transplant into humans and technologies like cloning and genetic engineering have brought the vision closer to reality in recent years. Genetically engineered pigs “could potentially be a sustainable, renewable source of organs — the solar and wind of organ availability,” Montgomery said. “This is really cutting-edge translational surgery and transplantation …
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