mi-viri//Getty Image The groundbreaking transplant could pave the way for a future without dialysis. BY TIM NEWCOMB Scientists genetically modified a pig kidney, doctors transplanted that kidney into a 62-year-old human, and that man is roughly one week beyond the transplant looking toward a release from Massachusetts General Hospital. “The success of this transplant is the culmination of efforts by thousands of scientists and physicians over several decades,” Tatsuo Kawai, Harvard Medical School professor of surgery and director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance at Mass General, says in a statement. The world’s first-ever transplant of a pig kidney into … Continue reading A 62-Year-Old Man Received a Kidney From an Unexpected Donor: a Pig