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The transplant team at NYU has successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig, genetically engineered to knockout a gene known to elicit human rejection of porcine xenotransplants, to a humanāgranted it was transplanted outside the abdomen to vessels from the lower extremity as simply a proof of principle on a family-consented patient who has suffered brain death, but it passed with flying colors making urine and creatinine āalmost immediately.ā | New York Times 2021
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