Lauren says xenotransplantation has actually been tried for many, ... We really started seeing the first examples of organs from these gene-edited pigs being tested in brain-dead donors.

Lauren says xenotransplantation has actually been tried for many, ... We really started seeing the first examples of organs from these gene-edited pigs being tested in brain-dead donors.

Lauren says xenotransplantation has actually been tried for many, many years, unsuccessfully. NEERGAARD: There were a number of chimpanzee transplants back in the 1960s.

Lauren says xenotransplantation has actually been tried for many, ... We really started seeing the first examples of organs from these gene-edited pigs being tested in brain-dead donors.

NEERGAARD: We really started seeing the first examples of organs from these gene-edited pigs being tested in brain-dead donors. And so kidneys from pigs were placed in them to see what happened.

Behind the story of the decades-long journey of xenotransplantation by: HAYA PANJWANI, Associated Press. Posted: Apr 17, 2025 / 12:37 PM CDT. ... NEERGAARD: We really started seeing the first examples ...