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First pig-to-human heart transplant: what can scientists learn?

Researchers hope that a person who has so far lived for a week with a genetically modified pig heart will provide a trove of data on the possibilities of xenotransplantation.
  1. Sara Reardon
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The first person to receive a transplanted heart from a genetically modified pig is doing well after the procedure last week in Baltimore, Maryland. Transplant surgeons hope the advance will enable them to give more people animal organs, but many ethical and technical hurdles remain.

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Nature 601, 305-306 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00111-9

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