Summary
- The first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the procedure
- The pig kidney used for the transplant was provided by a biotech company and had been modified to remove harmful pig genes and add certain human genes
- The patient had received a transplanted human kidney in 2018, but it began to fail five years later
- Xenotransplantation is a growing field where organs from one species are transplanted into another
