BrainDead

“There is always curiosity. Everyone takes a meeting,” says Curtis. “They do view it as the future, but is it next year, or 100 years from now?” “With a heart transplant, you are really swinging for the fence,” he says. “Whereas with extracorporeal, it’s a little more like how products usually get developed. You can try for steady improvements.” This is the first time an organ from one of the eGenesis pigs has been tried with a human, but Curtis says eGenesis is ready to apply for permission to start a formal trial of…

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Earlier this summer, physicians at NYU Langone were able to successfully transplant pig hearts into two recently-deceased humans. The medical team performed the procedures on June 16 and July 6, using special pig hearts that were genetically modified to be more acceptable for transplantation into a human body. Both the bodies were donated by recently deceased individuals and were placed on ventilator support so the efficacy of the pig hearts could be measured more accurately. The study arrives as the field of…

Two brain-dead individuals received genetically modified pig-heart transplants, part of growing efforts by scientists who want to improve tests on pig organs for pig viruses and gather data that could help launch clinical trials of animal-to-human organ transplants.Scientists at NYU Langone Health, where the research studies took place in June and July, said the pig hearts were flown from a facility hundreds of miles away and then transplanted into two recently deceased individuals, Lawrence Kelly, 72, a former welder…