News Health & Medicine A monkey survived two years with a miniature pig’s kidney Researchers genetically modified pigs to make their organs more usable for human transplantation one day Scientists genetically engineered pigs with kidneys that produced human proteins, shown in fuchsia. Such modifications may one day help people’s bodies accept an organ transplant from a different species. Violette Paragas, eGenesis Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Meghan Rosen October 11, 2023 at 11:45 am Little pigs with big genome edits could be the future of organ donation. A monkey that received a kidney from a genetically engineered miniature pig lived for more than two years after the transplant, scientists report October 11 in Nature.