Animal organs could help make up for a lack of human donors Ben Edwards/Getty
GENETICALLY modified pig hearts have been successfully transplanted into baboons for the first time. The monkeys lived at least 90 days, suggesting the research could move onto human clinical trials. Eventually, the hope is that pig organs could help fill the gap between the need for transplants and a lack of donors.
Bruno Reichart at the Walter Brendel Centre of Experimental Medicine in Germany and his team used pig hearts modified to produce human proteins and to block carbohydrates that pigs have but primates don’t,…
