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Tango0105 Dec 2018 9:25 p.m. PST

…. for First Time.

"In four adjacent enclosures transplantation researcher Bruno Reichart kept four happy baboons. "They can hop around, eat, drink and they are enjoying life," he says. "They watch TV—their favorite is the cartoon with the chipmunk." Most importantly, he says, they were healthy and normal—which is astonishing, given the fact that the hearts beating life in their chests were anything but normal for a baboon.

All four of the baboons that lived in Reichart's lab at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich had their original hearts surgically replaced with ones from genetically engineered pigs. Two of the baboons were euthanized after they lived 90 days—the survival period for any nonhuman primate set by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation as a benchmark to indicate xenotransplantation might be safe enough to try in humans. The other two kept going for twice as long before Reichart's team euthanized them, too. That survival period, says Muhammad Mohiuddin, a surgeon and director of the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program at the University of Maryland who was not involved with this work, "is an extraordinary achievement. You cannot stress this more. The next step from here is clinical transplantation [in people]."…."
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Bowman06 Dec 2018 6:07 a.m. PST

Uh-Uh, I can see PETA getting upset here.

Andrew Walters06 Dec 2018 8:54 a.m. PST

I can see PETA getting upset about my breakfast. There is great potential here. If they can put pig hearts into baboons, maybe certain people can have their pig hearts removed and receive human hearts. Or golden retriever hearts. That could solve a lot of problems.

Apologies to the kind, honest pigs out there.

This is a tremendous step forward.

Tango0106 Dec 2018 11:54 a.m. PST

Agree!.


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