{"id":488300,"date":"2026-06-08T01:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488300\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:38:15","slug":"in-a-first-human-receives-multiple-pig-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488300\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, human receives multiple pig organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A patient received two kidneys and a whole liver from a pig, the first example of multi-organ xenotransplantation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The patient was brain-dead, and the procedure, which was performed in China, was a trial, but the organs \u2014 from a pig genetically modified to improve compatibility with human immune systems \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-026-01708-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:were not immediately rejected;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;were not immediately rejected&quot;}\" class=\"link \">were not immediately rejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kidneys and livers often need to be transplanted together as liver failure often damages kidneys. Small numbers of people have received single or partial pig organs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is a huge shortage of organs available for transplantation \u2014 in the US, over 100,000 people are awaiting transplants, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organdonor.gov\/learn\/organ-donation-statistics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:over 4,700 die waiting every year;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;over 4,700 die waiting every year&quot;}\" class=\"link \">over 4,700 die waiting every year<\/a> \u2014 and researchers hope that pig organs can improve supply and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Tom Chivers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tom Chivers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A patient received two kidneys and a whole liver from a pig, the first example of multi-organ xenotransplantation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,87989,81086],"class_list":["post-488300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liver-failure","tag-pig-organs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}