A Brain-Dead Person Just Scored Two Kidneys From Genetically Modified Pigs

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was transplanted into a human whose heart condition left with no other option. While the transplant was authorized under compassionate grounds by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the idea is catching up with the provider of the organ, Revivicor, already having completed two such trials in dead patients.

The recipient, in this case, was injured in a motorcycle race and his family consented to him being kept alive on a ventilator so that the procedure could be conducted,

 

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