A monkey survived two years with a miniature pig’s kidney

Researchers genetically modified pigs to make their organs more usable for human transplantation one day

microscope image showing pig kidney tissue with human proteins in fuchsia

Scientists genetically engineered pigs with kidneys that produced human proteins, shown in fuchsia. Such modifications may one day help people’s bodies accept an organ transplant from a different species.

Violette Paragas, eGenesis

Little pigs with big genome edits could be the future of organ donation.

A monkey that received a kidney from a genetically engineered miniature pig lived for more than two years after the transplant, scientists report October 11 in Nature.