SARAH: I'm doing well. Good. I don't know. Do we shake hands? I don't know. I haven't—haven't done this in a really long time. So ... [laughs]

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SARAH: I'm doing well. Good. I don't know. Do we shake hands? I don't know. I haven't—haven't done this in a really long time. So ... [laughs]

SOREN: No but, like, I don't know, what, a month ago maybe? I was reading the news. The news I was reading was the New York Times.

SOREN: For the first time ever, the person's body didn't reject the kidney which, when you think about all the people waiting on kidneys, you know ...

SOREN: Totally. So I'm just—I'm reading through this article, but then in the middle of it there's just a couple lines about a particular pig that they used for this kidney that drew this very weird line back to a story we had told here on Radiolab. That's when I—so I brought in Sarah to, like, report this whole thing out.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY: Because we don't have an adequate supply of organs for the people who need them when they need them. And so a lot of people die waiting. And so the idea of a xenotransplant ...