Late last year, Dr. Robert Montogomery and his team at NYU performed the first ever pig-to-human kidney transplant. Even more recently, a pig heart was put into a person for the first time. The U.S is facing a donor organ crisis, and this technology could potentially save millions of human lives. But there are still a lot of scientific and ethical questions to answer before xenotransplantation can go mainstream.

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