MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoPig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1145arrow-down1external-linkPig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsabcnews.go.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally
minus-squareBadEngineering@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoThis is really exciting news, The severe lack of viable transplant organs has been a serious hinderance to the medical profession. If the process can be perfected this has the potential to save millions of lives.
This is really exciting news, The severe lack of viable transplant organs has been a serious hinderance to the medical profession. If the process can be perfected this has the potential to save millions of lives.