Xenotransplantation – the Future of Transplant?

Recently, a 58-year-old man received a heart transplant using a donor heart that came from a pig.  This is only the second instance of a pig-to-human heart transplant.  Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center performed the surgery on September 20, 2023.  The heart came from a genetically modified pig grown by Revivcor, aContinue reading “Xenotransplantation – the Future of Transplant?”