Thousands of people die each year due to the organ shortage crisis. Recently, doctors successfully transplanted pig kidneys into a brain-dead human for the first time in history. An expert discusses how pigs could be the future of human organ transplants.
Guest Information:
- Dr. Jayme Locke, Abdominal Transplant Surgeon and Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Links for more info:
- Jayme Locke – UAB Professor
- Dr. Jayme Locke, MD, MPH – UAB Medicine – Kidney Transplant Surgery
- UAB TEAM (@UAB_TEAM) on Twitter
- UAB announces first clinical-grade transplant of gene-edited pig kidneys into brain-dead human – UAB News
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