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What is xenotransplantation?
Xenotransplantation is when doctors transplant organs or tissues from one species into another. In this story, it's a pig kidney going into a human. It offers hope for patients waiting for human donor organs, but there are big challenges like the body rejecting the foreign organ and the risk of transmitting animal diseases.
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