For the first time, Chinese scientists have grown humanised kidneys, which have human cells, in pigs in a major breakthrough that could one day help in organ donation shortages.

In a first, Chinese scientists grow humanised kidneys in pigs

A pig kidney has been transplanted into a person for the first time without causing rapid rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially significant development that might ultimately help ease a critical scarcity of human organs for transplant.

Watch: US doctors successfully test a pig kidney transplant on a human patient 

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In a first, Chinese scientists grow humanised kidneys in pigs

Watch: US doctors successfully test a pig kidney transplant on a human patient