{"id":3616,"date":"2021-10-23T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2021-10-23T20:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T03:58:10","slug":"in-a-major-scientific-advance-a-pig-kidney-is-successfully-transplanted-into-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2021\/10\/23\/in-a-major-scientific-advance-a-pig-kidney-is-successfully-transplanted-into-a-human\/","title":{"rendered":"In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3616\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&#8220;Scientists temporarily attached a pig&#8217;s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. 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