How pig-organ transplants might soon save lives
FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the point where I would be able to get a human transplant,” Mr Andrews says. Then he read about Richard Slayman, who in 2024 had received a “xenotransplant”: an organ taken from another species.
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