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Challenges in Pig Organ Xenotransplanting Trials Mary Roach Mary Roach discusses xenotransplanting, the use of nonhuman organs, such as those from a pig, to replace failing human organs. This field is very new, with fewer than 10 xenotransplants performed

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Challenges in Pig Organ Xenotransplanting Trials Mary Roach

Mary Roach discusses xenotransplanting, the use of nonhuman organs, such as those from a pig, to replace failing human organs. This field is very new, with fewer than 10 xenotransplants performed. While one patient survived nine months with a pig kidney, most patients in the eGenesis pig kidney trial have only survived a couple of months.

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0:23.0

the author Mary Roach. Her new book is Replaceable You, Adventures in Human Anatomy, all the body parts

0:30.3

that are replaceable and how to think about them, how to bear up under their challenge. And in this part, we talk about xenotransplanting.

0:40.8

That's using organs of non-humans, such as a pig,

0:45.5

to replace an organ that no longer functions for a human.

0:49.1

Zenotransplanting.

0:50.5

Here's what we know right now.

0:51.9

Mary keeps up with the latest medical information.

0:55.5

Mary Roach, replaceable you, much more of this tonight.

0:59.7

With transplanting pig organs?

1:01.7

With xenotransplantation in America.

1:04.8

Oh, well, it's just very new.

1:06.9

Right now we have, there are fewer than 10, I believe, kidney and heart trans, xenotransplants.

1:17.3

This month, the trial, eGenesis, that's a pig kidney trial underway, just starting either this month or last month.

1:27.0

So it's very new.

1:29.0

It's not so much political as so far most of the patients have only made it a couple of months.

1:36.9

There's one gentleman who's, I think, had a kidney for nine months.

1:41.8

That's kind of the longest duration. So we'll have to, you know,

1:47.1

see how it goes with the people in the trial that just started.

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