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In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient as part of a clinical trial. The kidney had ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Andrew Kai ’27 is a neuroscience & biology major and he is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. What if we could ...