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Researchers Create A Pig Heart that Can Survive in Primates

Last week, researchers announced that they’d implanted the heart of a transgenic pig into a baboon, and kept it alive for a year.  Here’s why you should care: One day, a few decades from now, you are going to need a new organ.  Maybe a heart, maybe new lungs, maybe a new kidney — they all eventually wear out.

 

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