These Scientists Are Charting a New Future for Organ Transplantation—and It Starts With Pigs
Researchers at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute are the winners of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for their ongoing work in developing animal-to-human transplantation, also known as xenotransplantation. The question Can we ever create a reliable and safe supply of new organs for those who need them? The results In September 2021, Robert Montgomery and his team performed a novel procedure: the first transplantation of a genetically modified pig organ into a still-intact human body.
- ▪Researchers at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute are the winners of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for their ongoing work in developing animal-to-human transplantation, also known as xenotransplantation.
- ▪The question Can we ever create a reliable and safe supply of new organs for those who need them?
- ▪The results In September 2021, Robert Montgomery and his team performed a novel procedure: the first transplantation of a genetically modified pig organ into a still-intact human body.
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Researchers at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute are the winners of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for their ongoing work in developing animal-to-human transplantation, also known as xenotransplantation. The question Can we ever create a reliable and safe supply of new organs for those who need them? The results In September 2021, Robert Montgomery and his team performed a novel procedure: the first transplantation of a genetically modified pig organ into a still-intact human body. The family of a neurologically dead patient allowed the team to keep the patient’s body on a ventilator with the transplanted organ during the length of the experiment. For 52 hours, the pig kidney seemed to behave much like a typical human kidney, with no immediate signs of rejection.
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