Pig heart transplant....

[jltrent]

Just a matter of time before they get the kinks worked out.....

Researchers successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two recently deceased people connected to ventilators, the New York University team announced today. The surgeries are the latest step forward in the field of animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, which has seen a flurry of successes so far this year — raising hopes for a new, steady supply of organs to ease shortages.

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Testing pig heart transplants in donated bodies

 

[greybeard]

Just a matter of time before they get the kinks worked out.....

Researchers successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two recently deceased people connected to ventilators, the New York University team announced today.

Did they do that so the patients could vote?