Kidney from pig transplanted into deathly ill New Jersey woman — and begins working almost immediately
by TheBlaze
TheBlaze— A New Jersey woman is alive and improving after undergoing experimental transplant surgery involving a kidney from a genetically modified pig.Earlier this month, Lisa Pisano — a 54-year-old grandmother from Cookstown, New Jersey, about 20 miles southeast of Trenton — was practically on death's doorstep. She was in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but antibodies in her tissues made finding a match nearly impossible. She was also in heart failure, but because she was on dialysis, doctors...
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