NYU surgeon transplants an engineered pig kidney into the outside of a brain-dead patient (Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health)
January 21, 2022 10:29 AM ESTUpdated 05:18 PM
Pharma

An­oth­er day, an­oth­er xeno­trans­plant, as Unit­ed Ther­a­peu­tics looks to beat com­peti­tors to sci-fi-es­que break­through

Max Gelman

Senior Editor

Xeno­trans­plan­ta­tion is hav­ing a mo­ment.

Last Oc­to­ber, a team from NYU suc­cess­ful­ly trans­plant­ed a kid­ney from a pig in­to a brain-dead pa­tient, al­though ob­servers …

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