Researchers at New York University transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs. The newest experiments come after a historic but failed attempt earlier this year to use a pig’s heart to save a dying Maryland man. Tests with the deceased may prove an important stepping stone as regulators consider whether to allow rigorous studies of pig heart or kidney transplants in living patients.
Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead
