The 4PM Poll: Which Animal Would You Most Trust to Come Through With an Organ Donation?
Surgeons have done it: They’ve successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a human, and it worked.
- “This is a huge breakthrough. It’s a big, big deal,” Dr. Dorry Segev, a professor of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told The New York Times Tuesday.
- Many questions remained to be answered in the wake of the groundbreaking procedure, including the following: