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

By Monika Piotrowska, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York

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 and was grown in a pig, as an alternative to waiting around for a human organ donor who might never come. For decades, this idea lived at the edge of science fiction. Now it’s…

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