no more difficult than a human operation. with the pig gene that would have caused the rejection, deleted. immunosuppression then worked. we can say that, you know, it functioned well. it did all the things that a kidney is supposed to do. it acted like a human kidney transplant. and we didn t see any evidence of, you know, a rapid rejection. so the kidney did make urine almost immediately, like moments after we joined the blood vessels. montgomery says that the next phase will be studying longer periods after transplant to make sure that the pig kidney isn t rejected. i asked him which organ game next? i think the closest organ to the kidney in terms of being kind of yesterday for prime time is the heart. he calls it a game changer. pig kidney and then the heart. bret? bret: that s a great story. dr. siegel, thanks. up next, we are entering the homestretch in the virginia governor s race and it s down to
longer periods after transplant to make sure the pig kidney isn t rejected. i asked which organ came next. closest organ to the kidney in terms of being ready for prime time is the heart. marc: sandra, pig kidney, then pig heart, real game changer. sandra: that is fascinating. thank you for bringing that to us, doctor. can i ask you about this development in admission from nih that data function research did receive u.s. tax dollars, while we ve seen dr. dr. fauci deny this all along the way, what are we now learn something i talked to dr. fauci a lot, dr. collins. peter docish was involved with 500,000 dollar plus grant to work on research, they are saying is not technically gain