Pigs Can Help Solve Our Organ Donation Problem

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Analysis by Lisa Jarvis | Bloomberg

There’s long been a gap between the relatively small number of organs available for transplant and the long waiting lists of potential recipients. This week, the world got a little closer to a future in which pigs — yes, pigs — could narrow that gap.

A new study, published in Nature, showed that a monkey lived for two years after receiving a gene-edited pig kidney. Read the full article in The Washington Post.

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