Surgeons in New York successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human subject, reports The Economist. The kidney, experimentally attached for three days ito a brain-dead patient, marks substantial advances in the science of xenotransplantation.
In 2014, a firm called Synthetic Genomics in La Jolla, California, began work on a unique and radical project.
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