The future … Pork hearts in the human body? | World of variety DW

A lot of people have often lost the race against the clock waiting to hear a call from a hospital telling them that a donor heart has been revealed to be a substitute for their heart sick, giving them a chance to live normally.

Several institutions, preoccupied with medical problems, have sounded the alarm bell more than once, because the "culture" of organ donation is not widespread enough in many countries of the world. This prompted scientists to intensify their efforts to find alternative solutions. Today, medical researchers have discovered a way that could save the lives of many people with heart problems in the future.

Medical violation!

A German research team has successfully transplanted the heart of genetically modified pigs into the body of baboon monkeys using a highly sophisticated technique, the German website said. This new stage could pave the way for the laying of pigs in a human body, due to the lack of donation of organs.

The team, led by cardiologist surgeon Bruno Richard and veterinarian Eckhard Wolf, said four of the five transplanted monkeys had been living for three to six months. Some of these monkeys are healthy, the heart and liver members are functioning normally and a baboon monkey died 51 days after the transplant, according to Hanover Algemaine.

In his conversation with DW, Bruno Richart, a surgeon specializing in heart transplantation, said he was fully convinced that in the next few years, pork hearts could be implanted in the human body. "We just have to do this to prove that our technologies work," he said.

Scientists succeed in cultivating the hearts of pigs in the bodies of monkeys.

Strong criticism

"The heart of pigs has been genetically modified so that the immune system of baboon monkeys does not react to a violent reaction," said the SRF website, adding that cardiac blood circulation has also been improved before transplantation, A reduction in blood pressure.

Silke Stre Theatmer, spokeswoman for the Society "Physicians against Animal Experimentation", said the experts, saying that the transplant, which they would prepare for the future, would only be " false promises ", continued, The Bavarian State Radio and Television state that organ transplantation among living organisms is" the worst experimental research on animals ".

The same spokeswoman said that what doctors consider a "breach" in the medical field does not correspond to the real, pointing out that the laying of pigs in the human body can have unpredictable consequences.

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