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#AskAbhijit 120: Science and Technology!

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Human Organ Transplantation

There is a massive scarcity of available organs, and there's a huge waiting list. So one of the alternatives that people are exploring is a zeno transplantation. This year itself, 20 22, in january, i believe, a genetically modified pig heart was transplanted into a human being,. And that person stayed alive, was able to live for a few months. But until that happened, the person was doing well. If you can genetically modify a pig organ, and then you could possibly trick the human immune system into believing that it's a human organ, and you could make it work... Or you could try inge completely artificial hart. People have been trying that for decades

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