Etiket: pig
Joppe Pig fisherman
“I am Joppe Varkevisser (1993) and I am an editor at NUjij. I studied journalism in Utrecht and then worked for a few years as a freelancer at The Stentor…
The son of a patient who underwent a pig heart transplant called the operation a miracle
The transplantation of the heart of a genetically modified pig to a human, which was performed by American surgeons on 57-year-old David Bennett, is important for the United States and…
Running a marathon with a pig heart? Possible in theory, but far from reality
American surgeons transplanted a pig’s heart into a human body for the first time in history. With success, for the time being: the heart is beating and the man’s body…
Did the pig that served as a donor voluntarily donate the heart?
Ethics and technology evolve hand in hand. The first genetically modified pig heart now successfully transplanted into a human being proves, by old ethical standards, the superiority of human ingenuity…
Successfully transplanted a pig heart to a man in the US
New milestone in medicine. The University of Maryland School of Medicine (USA) has reported that it achieved transplant a heart from pork genetically modified 57-year-old man in surgery which he…
World first: transplant surgeons place pig heart on patient | Abroad
A pig heart has been transplanted into a human for the first time. This is a first in the medical world, reports The New York Times. American doctors from the…