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Improvements in heart xenotransplantation


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Baboons are used as pre-clinical models for transplanting pig hearts, but they don’t live long after a transplant.

Now, improvements to the process have kept baboons alive for three times as long as before, promising better research in pre-clinical studies of human heart transplants, too. 

research:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0765-z

 

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