WORLD FIRST! A Literal Pig Heart Was Just Put Inside a 57-Year-Old Man

WORLD FIRST! A Lit­er­al Pig Heart Was Just Put Inside a 57-Year-Old Man



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UPDATE: David Ben­nett, 57, died on March 8, 2022 at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land Med­ical Cen­ter. He received a heart trans­plant from a pig in January.

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Doc­tors and sci­en­tists have been try­ing to trans­plant organs between species for decades. They may have just succeeded. 

0:00​ Intro­duc­tion
0:52 Suc­ces­ful transplant
1:27 Why pig organs?
1:45​ Over 100.000 Amer­i­cans are wait­ing for a transplant
2:00​ The need for genet­ic modifications
2:23​ What is alpha-gal?
3:03​ Meat aller­gy, or the alpha-gal syndrome
2:23​ What is alp­David Ben­nett, 57, died Tues­day at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land Med­ical Cen­ter. He was the first per­son to receive a heart trans­plant from a pig.ha-gal?
3:29​ The 10 gene mod­i­fi­ca­tions for a suc­cess­ful pig heart transplant
4:00 What is a heart box, and why cocaine?
4:32 Com­pas­sion­ate Use Provision
5:50 The his­to­ry of xenotransplantation
6:12 Baby Fae’s case
7:39 Poten­tial and future

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