US Surgeons Successfully , Transplant a Pig Kidney, Into a Human.<br />The BBC reports that U.S. surgeons claim to have made a transplant breakthrough that could help solve donor organ shortages.<br />The surgeons say they have successfully transplanted a pig's kidney into a human recipient.<br />According to the BBC, the human patient was brain-dead and already on artificial life support with no chance of recovery.<br />The transplanted kidney came <br />from a genetically-modified pig.<br />The genetic modifications to the pig <br />prevent the organ from being rejected.<br />The BBC points out that the work has <br />not yet been peer-reviewed or published.<br />Experts call the transplant procedure the most advanced experiment in the field so far.<br />We observed a kidney that basically <br />functioned like a human kidney transplant, <br />that appeared to be compatible in as much <br />as it did all the things that a normal <br />human kidney would do, Dr. Robert Montgomery, Lead investigator, via BBC.<br />It functioned normally, and did not appear to be undergoing rejection, Dr. Robert Montgomery, Lead investigator, via BBC.<br />According to the BBC, the FDA has approved<br />the use of the genetically-modified <br />pig organs for research in this field.<br />Animal to human transplantation has <br />been something that we have studied <br />for decades now, and it's really interesting <br />to see this group take that step forward, Dr. Maryam Khosravi, NHS kidney <br />and intensive care doctor, via BBC
