IFL Science
By Laura Simmons
June 1, 2026
Organ transplants are among the greatest achievements in medicine, but there’s a major limitation: we just don’t have enough organs. One way that scientists hope to get around this is by using animal organs in place of human ones, and this field just took a step forward thanks to the first-ever combined liver and kidney transplant in a human using pig organs.
The use of animal organs in human transplants is called xenotransplantation, and it’s something that’s been the subject of imagination, scientific theory, questionable attempts, and – most recently – increasing experimental success.
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