A Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Human Body, and It Is Still Working

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By Tanya Lewis, Jeffrey DelViscio, Alexis Lim

Xenotransplants could help to solve the organ transplant crisis—if researchers can get the science right.

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Tanya Lewis: I’m standing on the rooftop of NYU Langone Health, a hospital in midtown Manhattan, scanning the sky over the East River for a helicopter. It’s New York City, so there are tons of helicopters, but I’m looking for a specific one. Read the full transcript or listen to the interview in Scientific American.

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