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By AP
A pig’s kidney has been transplanted into a human and in a medical first was not immediately rejected by the patient’s immune system.
Scientists watched the animal’s organ begin to work as part of a three day experiment which took place at the end of September, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage but a sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection.