Kidney disease patient survives nine months with transplanted PIG’S organ in world first as he waited for human donor
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A MAN survived nine months with a pig’s kidney in a world-first procedure before he got a transplant from a human donor. Shop manager Tim Andrews, 68, was able to stop dialysis treatment after the animal’s organ was implanted. The pig had been genetically engineered to have some genes turned off to prevent a human...