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From another article: “ In September, Montgomery moved the work forward by becoming the first to transplant a pig kidney into a person, but in that case, and a
by adamgrim 5y ago
From another article: “ In September, Montgomery moved the work forward by becoming the first to transplant a pig kidney into a person, but in that case, and a subsequent surgery in December, the person had been declared brain dead. Montgomery kept the body functioning via machine for more than two days each time, showing that the human immune system would not immediately reject a kidney from a gene-edited pig.”
- mastazi 5y agooh, I see, so I guess it's correct to say that this is the first "real" transplant and previous attempts were experiments. Also, apparently, transplants of heart valves from pigs have been around for a while, see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29883619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29883619