In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig

By artappraiser on Tue, 01/11/2022 - 1:26am |

For the first time, surgeons have successfully transplanted a genetically altered pig’s heart into a patient. The procedure may bring new hope to hundreds of thousands of people with organ failure. https://t.co/UFkJnUHTU5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 11, 2022

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/health/heart-transplant-pig-bennett.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

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"One Step Closer to Kidney Transplants From Pigs"!

Scientific researchers are making great progress overcoming the problems that have long plagued attempts at xenotransplantation.https://t.co/PMbCZknPCA
— reason (@reason) January 19, 2022