World-first heart transplant in the operating theatre.
Rights: University of Maryland School of Medicine, CC BY 4.0 Published 24 January 2022 Size: 700 KB Referencing Hub media

On 7 January 2022, Professor Bartley P Griffith performed the first successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart to a human.

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    Xenotransplantation – timeline

    This timeline features some of the key events in xenotransplantation from the early 1900s onwards. For a more detailed history see our History of xenotransplantation article. 1902 – Reconnecting ...

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