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Actuality: How Long Can a Person Live with Transplanted Pig Heart?


Date:
Wed, 01/26/2022 - 12:00

Radio Broadcast Num: 08

Radio Remark: Dr. Joan Lunney, USDA scientist, saying that the steps leading up to the recent pig-to-human heart transplant not only included years of breeding pigs to be more like humans in genetic makeup, but also years of testing organ transplants. And even today, there's no way to know how long the current transplant recipient will live.

Radio Length: 00:00:42.057

Radio Author: GCRAWFOR

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