In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human, and It Worked (Published 2021)

Dr. Robert Montgomery is director of the N.Y.U. Langone Transplant Institute in Manhattan. Genetically engineered pigs “could potentially be a sustainable, renewable source of organs,” he said.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York Times Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally, a scientifi