{"id":137996,"date":"2022-04-11T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T01:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/doctors-successfully-transplant-a-pig-kidney-to-a-human-for-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T01:02:26","slug":"doctors-successfully-transplant-a-pig-kidney-to-a-human-for-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/doctors-successfully-transplant-a-pig-kidney-to-a-human-for-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney to a Human for First Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-successfully-transplant-a-pig-kidney-to-a-human-for-first-time-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig to a human \u2014 and, they say, the organ functioned normally.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure occurred between a genetically-altered pig and a brain dead human patient at NYU Langone Health, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/19\/health\/kidney-transplant-pig-human.html\" class=\"\"> according to <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a><i>. <\/i> The pig was genetically engineered to grow a kidney that would be accepted by a human body. The organ was then attached to the patient\u2019s blood vessels in the upper leg, outside of the abdomen, where the researchers observed it functioning normally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was better than I think we even expected,\u201d Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, told the NYT. Montgomery helped perform the procedure in September and told the paper that it<strong> \u201c<\/strong>looked like any transplant I\u2019ve ever done from a living donor. A lot of kidneys from deceased people don\u2019t work right away, and take days or weeks to start. This worked immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig to a human \u2014 and, they say, the organ functioned normally. The procedure occurred between a genetically-altered pig and a brain dead human patient at NYU Langone Health, according to The New York Times. The pig was genetically engineered to grow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}