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In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human

By NPR / Associated Press
| October 20, 2021

Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair of large blood vessels outside the body of a deceased recipient so they could observe it for two days. The kidney did what it was supposed to do — filter waste and produce urine — and didn't trigger rejection.

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