Pig Heart

Pig Heart

Man given genetically modified pig heart dies

Man given genetically modified pig heart dies

‘We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,’ Dr Bartley Griffith, one of the surgeons, told The New York Times.

Man given genetically modified pig heart dies

Man gets genetically modified pig’s heart

Man gets genetically modified pig’s heart

Surgeon Muhammad M Mohiuddin, MD leads a team placing a genetically-modified pig heart into a storage device at the Xenotransplant lab before its transplant on David Bennett, a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease, at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, US January 7, 2022. Picture taken January 7, 2022. University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM)/Handout via REUTERS.

Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant