Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man, and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Dr. Philip Sommer discusses how the research team has come this far in animal-human transplants efforts and what it means for the future of organ transplants.
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