First pig-to-human heart transplant, if successful, regulators and ethicists will need to define eligibility for pig organ

First pig-to-human heart transplant, if successful, regulators and ethicists will need to define eligibility for pig organ

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. “It’s been a long road...

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