Pigs could be an alternative supply of suitable organs for transplant Worawut Saewong/EyeEm/Getty
The race to create pigs with organs that are suitable for transplanting into people is hotting up. At least three teams have added human genes to pigs to try to prevent donor organs from being rejected by a recipient’s immune system.
There is a shortage of human donor organs. Transplanting organs from pigs to humans could solve this, but organs from normal pigs trigger a very strong attack from the immune system.
Different research teams are trying to tackle this by adding human genes to pigs,…
Article amended on 30 January 2020
We have clarified the organ transplant process.
