Two brain-dead individuals received genetically modified pig-heart transplants, part of a growing effort by scientists who want to improve testing on pig organs for the pig virus and gather data that will help clinically. Can help start the test animal-to-human organ transplant,
Scientists at NYU Langone Health, where the research studies took place in June and July, said the pig hearts were blown up from a facility hundreds of miles away and then passed on to recently deceased individuals, said Lawrence Kelly, 72, a former welder at Beaver Meadows. were implanted in. , Pa., and Alva Capuano, 64, a former New York City teacher.