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Pig-to-human heart transplant.

Ardillaun · 2022-01-15 20:21:51

On January 7, a 57 year old man with terminal cardiac failure underwent a nine hour operation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and received a cardiac transplant from a pig. Three innovations made this historic procedure possible: 1. Genetic modification. Ten genes were changed in the pig: three were removed…

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#32 14-03-2025 09:57PM

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That would seem logical, and what I originally thought, only to read that there was still talk of them being used, but at a reduced level, with some expectation that they could perhaps be eliminated in some cases.

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#33 15-03-2025 12:29AM

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From an immunological point of view, I think it’s a bit like a hip replacement? Maybe somebody can enlighten us here if that’s not the case. I see they’ve made the flow pulsatile because that’s what the human heart does but that can be modified any time. The marvellous thing, of course, is the potential to scale up if things go well. Millions of these yokes could be produced.

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