A GIANT LEAP FORWARD
IT’S been a dream of surgeons for centuries: transplanting organs from animals to humans and changing the course of history. Yet for hundreds of years it has eluded medical science’s brightest brains – the human body rejected the animal’s organs almost instantly. Until now.
Doctors in New York recently performed a breakthrough surgery, transplanting a pig’s kidney into a human without triggering rejection by the immune system.
The experimental transplant is a potentially giant leap forward for medical science and could make a huge difference to the global shortage of organs needed by transplant patients.
The revolutionary transplant surgery was performed at New York University Langone Health by a team
