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They created the Pig Man from Seinfeld by taking a pig's heart and putting it inside of a human man..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/10/human-pig-heart-transplant/9152951002/
This is cool. We are breeding animals to use as organ donors now.
The surgery, at the University of Maryland Medical Center, marks the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as an organ donor.
Dave Bennett, 57, agreed to be the first to risk the experimental surgery, hoping it would give him a shot at making it home to his Maryland duplex and his beloved dog, Lucky.
“This is nothing short of a miracle,” his son David said Sunday, two days after his father's life-extending surgery. “That’s what my dad needed, and that’s what I feel like he got.”
In the nine-hour surgery, doctors replaced his heart with one from a 1-year-old, 240-pound pig gene-edited and bred specifically for this purpose.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/10/human-pig-heart-transplant/9152951002/
This is cool. We are breeding animals to use as organ donors now.