2022
January
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| For the first time a human has received a pig's heart in a transplantation. Genetic modifications of the pig were made in order to prevent that the heart is rejected by the immune system of the patient and that viruses occurring in pigs are passed on to the human species this way. related: #heart_transplantation #pig |
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