THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 20, 2021 at 11:40 JST
This undated photo provided by Revivicor in December 2020 shows a ‘GalSafe’ pig which was genetically engineered to eliminate a sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, which causes immediate organ rejection. (Revivicor via AP)
Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. [Read More]
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