The first pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. But we’re still a long way from solving organ shortages
- Written by: Christopher Rudge, Law lecturer, University of Sydney
Massachusetts General HospitalIn a world first, we heard last week that US surgeons had transplanted a kidney from a gene-edited pig into a living human. News reports said the procedure was a breakthrough in xenotransplantation – when an organ, cells or tissues are transplanted from one species to another.
The world’s first transplant...