Humans May Soon Be Swapping Organs With Pigs…
Safe pig-to-human organ transplants may soon be carried out after a new breakthrough. Normally, putting a pig organ such as a kidney into a human would trigger a devastating and deadly immune response.
Now, new approaches by scientists have shown that it might be possible to trick the immune system into tolerating or not recognising foreign pig tissue.











First Posted: 09-10-05 01:04 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM