Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
Tim Andrews leaving hospital in January after he received a genetically modified pig kidney.Credit: Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital A 67-year-old US man is still alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person. Researchers say the outcome is a landmark case of successful xenotransplantation — the process of transplanting organs from animals to humans. The recipient, Tim Andrews, had e