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Wales Online
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Mark Waghorn & Daniel Smith

Transplant breakthrough: Surgeons put two kidneys from a pig into a human for the first time

Surgeons have transplanted two kidneys from a genetically modified pig into a human in a world first.

The organs worked for more than three days during an experiment on a brain dead patient.

Jim Parsons, 57, was already on artificial life support - with acute kidney injury and no prospect of recovery.

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