Pig Kidney Works In A Donated Body For Over A Month, A Step Toward Animal-Human Transplants
August 16, 2023 12:04PM CDT
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health prepare to transplant a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023. Researchers around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
NEW YORK (AP) — New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally.
The experiment at NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one.
Researchers plan to track the organ’s performance for a second month.
Also Wednesday, another research team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported success implanting pig kidneys in a donated body for seven days.
It’s another step in the long quest to one day use animal organs to save human lives.
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