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‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
A 67-year-old US man is still alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person. Researchers say the outcome is a landmark case of successfulxenotransplantation — the process of transplanting organs from animals to humans.
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Nature645, 571-572 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02851-w
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