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The first successful organ transplant was less than 75 years ago. Despite significant progress since then, many patients still fall through the gaps of what remains a complicated procedure (Credits: Alex Ouyang/MIT Jameel Clinic).
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In 1954, the world’s first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and scientists had correctly theorized that the recipient’s antibodies were unlikely to reject an organ from an identical twin. One Nobel Prize and a few decades later, advancements in immune-suppressing drugs increased the viability of and demand for organ transplants. Today, over 1 million organ transplants have been performed in the United States, more than any other country in the world.