Tag: from the pig
The patient who had a heart transplant from a pig dies
The first patient to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig died two months after the operation. The Maryland School of Medicine hospital, where the experimental surgery was…
A First in Medicine: Pig-to-Human Heart Transplantation
A genetically modified pig heart has been transplanted into a person suffering from a fatal heart disease in the USA. The surgery, a first in the history of medicine, was…