BREAKING NEWS !
The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital . The 62 - year - old was sent home on Wednesday , two weeks after the ground - breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ) . Organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past . But the success of this procedure so far has been hailed by scientists as a historic milestone in the field of transplantation . Source : BBC NEWS .
