If you ever find yourself in need of an organ replacement, you’re going to need to get lucky. “But there is a chance that your lucky day will never come — that you’ll become one of the 20 Americans who die each day waiting for an organ. Indeed, forces that improve American health in other ways threaten to make the shortage of transplant organs even more acute: Safer vehicles cut into supply; longer life spans exacerbate demand. Even though 58 percent of adults in the United States have registered as donors, demand still outpaces supply and most likely always will.” That said, there is one trend working in your favor. According to the NYT Magazine: Thanks to genetically engineered pigs, the donor-organ shortage could soon be a thing of the past. Of course, we’ve been hearing about the promise of this science for years. Is this time different? Here’s Parsia Vagefi, the chief of surgical transplantation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas: “The joke about xenotransplantation is that it’s always just around the corner, and it always will be. But recent progress has been so remarkable that for first time it feels like we’re on the verge of a definitive solution to the organ crisis.” (If this works, it could trigger a bacon shortage, but nothing is perfect…)