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by TrinaryWorksToo 815 days ago
It's easy to transplant a pigney into a human. The hard part is keeping them alive afterward, especially in the long term. It seems like the event is not far enough in the past to know.
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Not the same as a human, but transplants to other primates were moderately successful [1]:

> Researchers transplanted kidneys from genetically engineered Yucatan pigs into cynomolgus monkeys such as the one above. The monkeys survived for up to two years with the xenografts.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monkeys-with-tran...

“easy”
comparatively