An NYU surgeon transplants an engineered pig kidney into the outside of a brain-dead patient (Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health)
'Xenotransplantation is coming': New NEJM paper gives detailed look into 2 pig-to-human kidney transplant cases
The thymokidney is a curious organ, if you could call it that. It’s a sort of Frankensteinian creation — a system of pig thymus embedded underneath …
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