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Pig organs for transplant patients

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Transplanting a Pig's Heart

Pigs are the number one candidate for zena transplantation because their organs are about the right size for our bodies. It's actually taken huge advances in genetic engineering to make it possible. The first thing that happens as you take a pig organ and such as a heart, you transplant it from that pig into a human is this huge human immune cascade that attacks the organ - hyperacute rejection.

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