In a First Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig That Was Part Human

In a first man receives a heart from a genetically altered pig that was part human. In reality, the genetic alteration that the pig had undergone was a gean editing process to remove a sugar in its cells that's responsible for hyper fast organ rejection. This is one of the greatest challenges with organ transplanting, the risk of rejections. Even though, in theory, pig hearts are com with our bodies, generally speaking, this genetic alteration that removes the particular sugar could have a huge impact in terms of solving the gigantic problem of organ shortages.