{"id":133883,"date":"2022-01-11T00:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/us-man-recovering-after-breakthrough-pig-heart-transplant"},"modified":"2022-01-11T00:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T08:24:15","slug":"us-man-recovering-after-breakthrough-pig-heart-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/us-man-recovering-after-breakthrough-pig-heart-transplant","title":{"rendered":"US man recovering after \u2018breakthrough\u2019 pig heart transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7e4I7Rnx4NI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A man with terminal heart disease is responding well three days after being given a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, his doctors reported on Monday.<br \/> The surgery, performed by a team at the University of Maryland Medicine in the United States, is among the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a pig-to-human heart transplant, a field made possible by new gene editing tools.<br \/> If proven successful, scientists hope pig organs could help alleviate shortages of donor organs.<br \/> For David Bennett, a 57-year-old from Maryland, the heart transplant was his last option.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Barbara Angopa reports.<\/p>\n<p>- Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/<\/a><br \/> - Find us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/<\/a><br \/> - Check our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#HeartTransplant #PigsHeart #DavidBennett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man with terminal heart disease is responding well three days after being given a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, his doctors reported on Monday. The surgery, performed by a team at the University of Maryland Medicine in the United States, is among the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a pig-to-human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}