The first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig kidney into a brain dead in the United States has been successful.
Medical staff at the University of Alabama announced in a paper published in the Journal of the American Transplantation Society that a genetically modified pig kidney was transplanted into the body of a man who was brain-dead in a motorcycle accident in September last year.
This kidney started producing urine 23 minutes after surgery and was functioning normally for three days.
Previously, medical staff at the University of Maryland have recently succeeded in transplantation research using pig organs, such as transplanting the heart of a genetically modified pig to a patient with end-stage heart disease.