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A news item published on Friday 14 January by Hyderabad Chronicle on “A pig’s heart beats inside a human!” Dr Gokhale speaks about a pig’s heart beats inside a human.
Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon. Explains to us that while four pig’s genes were knocked out to avoid antibody mediated rejection, six human genes were inserted to promote the immune acceptance. And while the patient was taken off the ventilator, Dr Gokhale observes that we still have to wait for further progress. “If patient survives long-term, this can be a big boon to thousands of patients waiting all over the world for cadaveric heart transplantation“.
