Pig Kidney Transplant News 2024. In a world first, doctors at the massachusetts general hospital (mass general) in boston have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living person. Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced thursday.
Robert montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018, leads the operation to implant a new kind of modified pig kidney into a living patient for the first. In a world first, doctors at the massachusetts general hospital (mass general) in boston have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living person.