Written by Martha Gershun, Guest Blogger When I donated a kidney to a woman I read about in the newspaper in 2018, the idea that xenotransplantation might someday make human organ donations obsolete was a far-fetched fantasy. Today, just seven years later, that fantasy is much closer to reality. The first successful animal-to-human kidney transplant took place one year ago at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, when surgeons transplanted a kidney from a genetically-modified …
