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Should we put pig organs in humans? We asked an ethicist. from Vox - All RSS feed.
Should we put pig organs in humans? We asked an ethicist.
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart failure, survived almost two months with a pig heart beating in his chest, one of five people who have received pig organs as a part of an experimental procedure called xenotransplantation — the transplanting of […]