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Pig Kidneys Transplanted into Brain-Dead Man as Patients Face Organ Shortages
- ColinWright 5y agoThis story has been submitted many times, and discussed a few: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Pig%20Kidney&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... The main discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942200 That's old enough that it's no longer possible to comment there, so if you have something to add, this would be the place. It's perhaps also eclipsed by the recent transplanting of a pig's heart into a live human patient. The discussion of that is primarily here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882912