(Bloomberg) Doctors transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man’s body where it continued to function normally, moving the field closer to the possibility of using animal tissue and organs to fight human disease.Most Read from BloombergGoldman CEO’s Most Loyal Deputy Is Tested by Mutinous PartnersChina Shadow Bank Misses Dozens of Payments as Risks GrowTech Stocks Take a Leg Down Ahead of Fed Minutes: Markets WrapChina Asks Some Funds to Avoid Net Equity Sales as Markets SinkMarc Becker
Startups in the field of bioengineering are attempting to get the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve trials involving transplanting animal organs into humans. One of the [.]
In the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs, New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead patients