Pig-organ transplants: what three human recipients have taught scientists

As researchers mark the loss of the first living recipient of a pig kidney, they share what they’ve learnt about xenotransplantation.

Last week, the first living person to receive a kidney from a pig died, just under two months after his transplant — sooner than his doctors had expected. But the timing is in keeping with that of the first people to receive pig hearts, both of whom died around two months after their transplants.

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Nature 629, 980-981 (2024)

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