Modified Pig Kidney Transplant 2024. Earlier this month, surgeons in china transplanted a modified pig liver into a. An alabama woman has “never felt better” after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig, reports the new york times’ roni caryn rabin.

Health correspondent rob stein got exclusive. Robert montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018, leads the operation to implant a new kind of modified pig kidney into a living patient for the first.