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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?

  • Written by Monika Piotrowska, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York
Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?While research on human-pig chimeras is on an indefinite pause, xenotransplantation is moving ahead.wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue...

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