In a milestone for transplantation medicine that gives hope to thousands of patients waiting for scarce organ donations, a 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease received a heart from a genetically modified pig. This first successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human took place in Baltimore on Friday, 7th January 2022.
The patient, David Bennett of Maryland, was too ill to qualify for a human donor heart, and as per latest reports, he was doing well with his new organ, his surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center said. “We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us,” his surgeon, Bartley Griffith, told the Times. The procedure was based on years of research on gene editing and cloning in order to develop pig organs which are less likely to be rejected by humans
Throughout history of mankind, the heart has been considered as the seat of human emotion and,....
