On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last ...

NEERGAARD: We really started seeing the first examples of organs from these gene-edited pigs being tested in brain-dead donors. And so kidneys from pigs were placed in them to see what happened.

In what they call a “particularly egregious example,” a Texas-based organ procurement organization, LifeGift, allegedly skipped over a 15-year-old patient who had been waiting to receive a transplant ...