Genetically altered pig heart transplanted into a human for the second time

(By Megan Molteni for STAT)

In a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Friday that, for only the second time in history, it had transplanted a heart from a genetically engineered pig into a human. Continue reading here…

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