[Throughline] Organ Transplantation, Allocation, and the Long Road to a Pig Kidney

In January 2025 a surgical team in Boston sewed a kidney taken from a pig into a 66-year-old man in kidney failure, and the organ worked.

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[Throughline] Organ Transplantation, Allocation, and the Long Road to a Pig Kidney

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