A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far

www.ctvnews.ca A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far

It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig --- and hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.

A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far::It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig --- and hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.

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Growing genetically modified pigs with human-like hearts to save human lives? The ethics of that are a bit complicated, but from a STEM perspective it's a really fascinating idea. What a time to be alive.
- There's nothing ethically wrong with this until we consider eating meat unethical. As a society, we're nowhere near that.
  
  If you personally don't want to use this, you can opt out.
  
  You're breeding and killing an animal for its organs, and some would find that unethical. But you are doing it to save a human life, so it's a bit of a trolley problem I suppose.
  
  eating meat is unethical
  
  capitalism doesnt care for ethics if government banned meat and news articles said moderately disparaging things about it for a week the entirety of the US would likely change their stance
  
  because everyone is an AI that parrots what (they think) smarter people say
  
  if you think im wrong lets talk about how people feel about drugs or literally any problem thats sensationalized. you idiots will believe anything if the news says it.
- As much as I love animals (more than most people I meet), as a species we must value human life over animal life to some extent. Suffering for corporate exploitation? No, that's cruel and evil. Minimal suffering in an organism to save a human life? I wish there was a way to keep it from being sentient (so no suffering is felt), but I believe it's a fair trade for a human life. But yes, we must always strive to minimize the suffering we cause.
  
  Are you vegan?
  
  Edit: ahh the sweet sweet cognitive dissonance lol
  
  I definitely don't value humans enough to use an animal as an incubator for a heart. It's cruel and extremely unethical. Nothing will ever convince me otherwise that animals don't also deserve life just the same as humans.
- I hope we get to mass manufacturing lab grown hearts quickly. No need to harm sentients.
  
  1 Star Trek replicator please!
- Easy just grow cabbages with human-like hearts to appease the vegans.
See ? show this to the next person who says 'ACAB'
- I doubt this pig opted-in to the donation. If it wasn't a choice, it doesn't make them good.
  
  It's a joke, the OP is implying that the pig that "donated" the heart was a cop.
Real life zombie pigman
- We all know he has a gold sword somewhere in his house.
Same guy gonna rush to the doctor after his heart rate hits 200 while staring at some mud
Has he gained any pig-like superpowers so far?
- "Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does whatever a Spider Pig does..."
  
  I'm surprised and mildly disappointed no one else commented this.
Why pig hearts? Is it just a size issue?
- Pig organs are approximately the same size and configuration as human ones. They also share a very similar immune system and biochemistry. We also have experience breeding and genetically modifying them. This makes them the easiest option to modify for human use. Still not easy, but easiest.
  
  Oh so animal farm was literal?
  
  What if, previous advance human civilization, decided to grow organ for human transplants and they came up with pigs, and finally we current civilization are picking up on that.
- Bird hearts are too fowl.
  
  Unexpected Lol. Well done.
  
  Dammit Dad. Fine, take my angry upvote.
- Skill issue, actually
I WAWNT DAYT ONE!
- South Park certainly didn't hold back on that episode 😂
Man, and I thought I had bacon in my heart
There is an Onion News Network show about this
- Jim haggerty? You survived?
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The Maryland team last year performed the world's first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man.

What is this sentence? The word "another" implies either this man wasn't the first or that a "genetically altered pig" is legally considered dying man.
- The man in the first four paragraphs of the article, Lawrence Faucette, is the second dying man to receive a genetically modified pig heart. The first dying man, referred to in your quote, only survived two months but the heart failed, possibly due to a virus in the heart that came from the pig.
  
  Thank you for your explanation. I did not follow correctly.

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