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Nader Moazami, MD, (right) surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and cardiothoracic physician assistant Amanda Merrifield prepare to remove the heart from a recently deceased donor on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in New York, NY.

Modified pig hearts transplanted into dead people kept on life support

12 July 2022

Researchers at New York University have successfully transplanted two genetically modified pig hearts into recently deceased humans who were kept on ventilators

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