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How Do You Know if You Can Plant a Pig Heart Into a Human?

i'm wondering how close we get to creating increasingly human like pigs right? Because the one of the best ways, outside of drugs, is to continue genetically altering the pigs. And now, you know, pig hearted sounds like an insult, but it may, in the future, just be a condition that people have. A lot of this depends on a new experimental drug made by an outfit called kanixa pharma. Icles this suppressed the immune system and prevented rejection. They also used a new mechanical device to keep the pig's heart preserved until surgery.

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