In January of 2022 we brought you an episode of today explain titled the man with a pig heart

Yeah, so I understand it was an eight hour operation and the surgeons were quite straightforward with Mr. Bennett beforehand that they really couldn't guarantee even that he was going to wake up from that surgery.

But he did wake up from that surgery with the pig heart beating in his chest.

And a few days later he was off the heart lung machine

breathing on his own. He's able to talk. His recovery is expected to be very

slow because of his prior condition, but he continues to be monitored in the hospital.

Today we're bringing you a sequel of sorts, The Man with a pig kidney.

Rick Slaman is waking up in his own bed

after receiving the world's first successful transplant

of a genetically modified pigs kidney into a human.

Whether pig kidneys could save millions of lives and whether we really need the pigs at all.

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