Terminally ill U.S. man gets a pig’s heart with a successful transplant

pigs in a sty at farmThe organ donor crisis has long inspired the medical fraternity to look for feasible donors from other species. This week, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have successfully executed the world’s first heterologous heart transplant, placing a genetically-modified pig’s heart into a terminally ill human being. Note: This article contains imagery and descriptions of human and animal … Continue reading

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