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Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Heart Into a Human. This Is How They Did It

Doctors and scientists have been trying to transplant organs between species for decades. They may have just succeeded.  0:00​ Introduction 0:52 Succesful transplant 1:27 Why pig organs? 1:45​ Over 100.000 Americans are waiting for a transplant 2:00​ The need for genetic modifications 2:23​ What is alpha-gal? 3:03​ Meat allergy, or the alpha-gal syndrome 2:23​ What…

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Doctors and scientists have been trying to transplant organs between species for decades. They may have just succeeded. 

0:00​ Introduction
0:52 Succesful transplant
1:27 Why pig organs?
1:45​ Over 100.000 Americans are waiting for a transplant
2:00​ The need for genetic modifications
2:23​ What is alpha-gal?
3:03​ Meat allergy, or the alpha-gal syndrome
2:23​ What is alpha-gal?
3:29​ The 10 gene modifications for a successful pig heart transplant
4:00 What is a heart box, and why cocaine?
4:32 Compassionate Use Provision
5:50 The history of xenotransplantation
6:12 Baby Fae’s case
7:39 Potential and future

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61 Comments

  1. Marta Franco

    February 21, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    What are your thoughts on xenotransplants? Would you get a pig organ if you needed a transplant?

    • Sacrificial Rubber

      February 21, 2022 at 5:23 pm

      Pigs are WAY MORE than food/parts to harvest…they cry from sadness and can die from depression. She shows more emotions to me than most humans.

    • Robert Spettigue

      February 21, 2022 at 7:18 pm

      If there were no other viable options, sure.

    • Ray Reece

      February 21, 2022 at 7:32 pm

      As the human population grows the need for transplants will far outpace the supply more than it currently does. We have a duty to those on the transplant lists to research and develop these technologies so no one dies waiting for a transplant that will never come.

    • Ozias Emmanuel

      February 21, 2022 at 10:24 pm

      We are all animals; whether we accept it or not. We are no better than pigs, we are just more intelligent and more aware.

      Most people will not even know that they have a pig’s organ if they weren’t told…

    • SYNDESTV

      February 22, 2022 at 12:54 am

      People in need of organs can be on the waiting list for YEARS. If a pig organ can expedite the process and it’s not rejected by the body then by all means

    • Devout Muslim

      February 22, 2022 at 7:23 am

      @Metaforically Speaking What is the Islamic law in Islam regarding the transfer of internal animal organs to humans? I know the Muslim Pakistanis who make it, but isn’t the pig haram and the excrement is mughallazah (courtship)?

    • Devout Muslim

      February 22, 2022 at 7:23 am

      @Ray Reece What is the Islamic law in Islam regarding the transfer of internal animal organs to humans? I know the Muslim Pakistanis who make it, but isn’t the pig haram and the excrement is mughallazah (courtship)?

    • QoM

      February 22, 2022 at 12:35 pm

      You’re all messed up in the head.

    • QoM

      February 22, 2022 at 12:38 pm

      I rather die.

  2. J Campbell

    February 21, 2022 at 8:06 pm

    That means the live human organ transplants business of the Transinternational Anti-human Organized Crime Group the Chinese Communist Party shall be numbered.

  3. David Leach

    February 21, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    I know the guy that had the operation, he rang me the other day to tell me all about it, but all I could hear was crackling.

  4. jacob W

    February 21, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    I am fascinated by this story, but there is one question that has been plaguing me. Would he be a cannibal now If he eats bacon since he has a pig heart?

  5. Carmen Carlson

    February 21, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    I don’t think Jesus would like that.

  6. Asif KHAN

    February 21, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    If we share the same planet why not organs

  7. Os

    February 21, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    As an Speaker of English as a Foreign Language myself, that Spanish accent (Spanish from Spain) sounds like an abomination or unacceptable or as Marta Franco would say it: an “abominazion” and “anaceptabel “

  8. Kyle H

    February 21, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    -1000000 Allah social credit points

  9. Panama city Stump removal

    February 21, 2022 at 9:36 pm

    I would rather die than have a pig heart put in my body

  10. Just Another Manic Gamer

    February 21, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    Will those modified 🧬 be pass down to their offspring?

  11. Nick

    February 21, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    That is simply incredible! If I need one in the future, I would totally be up to accepting one.

  12. Ozias Emmanuel

    February 21, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    Wow, just wow…

  13. PAKFONES

    February 21, 2022 at 10:23 pm

    As a Pakistani, I can proudly say that Dr. Muhammad Mohiyuddin from my beloved country, The great man should be awarded a Nobel prize.

  14. mark sim

    February 21, 2022 at 10:50 pm

    I can’t understand one word this lady is saying. Looks interesting though. 🙂

  15. Michael Reyes

    February 21, 2022 at 11:05 pm

    More Marta as a presenter please!

  16. bbrah bboul

    February 21, 2022 at 11:58 pm

    Darn it if only we can figure out how to save the lives of 60 thousands of people that die every year because of the greed of health care corporations and big farma. Like the young men and women who die because they can’t afford insulin. Something that doesn’t even happen in third world countries. This category of death only exists in united states among the industrialized countries.

  17. To The Floor!

    February 22, 2022 at 12:01 am

    WAYYYYY to thick of an accent for me. I had to focus tooo hard to understand. Please don’t put me through this again CENT.

  18. Los Pollos Hermanos

    February 22, 2022 at 12:16 am

    Pfffft. A pig’s life is more valuable than some old geezer already on death’s door. Look at that bag of bones. He already looks like one of the zombies on the walking dead. When I get that old and sickly, I’m gonna die with dignity via MAID (medical assistance in dying) here in my home country of Canada. When are humans gonna learn? It’s the QUALITY of a person’s life that matters! Not the QUANTITY! Even with a transplant, Hector Salamanca here can only survive 5 more years AT BEST (smh). Modern medicine has gotten good at PROLONGING life, but it still sucks at improving the health and quality of life of the very ill. This isn’t a miracle. We’re just watching a dying man get put on more life support because he’s too afraid to let go. Smh. Again, I feel more sorry for the young pig who died so this walking corpse could live maybe another 2 years in some deathwatch facility with nurses changing his soiled diapers and urine soaked bedsheets, and spoon feeding him apple sauce…………..this is a terrible way to live (or rather, to die) in the twilight of your life.

  19. Devout Muslim

    February 22, 2022 at 12:24 am

    What is the Islamic law in Islam regarding the transfer of internal animal organs to humans? I know the Muslim Pakistanis who make it, but isn’t the pig haram and the excrement is mughallazah (courtship)?

  20. Handi Jobe

    February 22, 2022 at 12:27 am

    This is excellent news thanks for your time and help!

  21. BCG

    February 22, 2022 at 12:32 am

    Accent so strong I wonder how she sounds in bed

  22. Iam Brian

    February 22, 2022 at 12:55 am

    Happy to see this follow up.🇻🇨

  23. DylValentine

    February 22, 2022 at 1:08 am

    Sorry I find it very difficult to understand this host

  24. Kailen Bittner

    February 22, 2022 at 1:15 am

    Haha I always new humans were pigs

  25. Neverland X iDolla

    February 22, 2022 at 1:23 am

    Why must pig heart? Why not other animals like cow, buffalo or etc?

    • Birdbeak

      February 22, 2022 at 9:01 am

      Pigs and apes hearts are naturally closer to the Human heart than those other animals

  26. wild reed

    February 22, 2022 at 1:55 am

    Umm, I’m all for diversity, but I didn’t understand anything the host said. Are CNET videos still in English?

  27. J Corella

    February 22, 2022 at 2:17 am

    Wow, that’s insane. Is a pigs heart better than a humans?

  28. Money's Milken

    February 22, 2022 at 2:33 am

    What kind of accent does she

  29. Mohammad Kais Haider Chowdhury

    February 22, 2022 at 2:39 am

    Thanks CNET for such video

  30. Linda linda

    February 22, 2022 at 2:57 am

    90%pig are blood type A. A pig can not live long so I assume this man will die soon.

  31. TheBikemaster94

    February 22, 2022 at 3:03 am

    The “pig man” from Seinfeld .
    Hollywood always has its way of informing the public.
    Those who have eyes to see will see it

  32. Mike Mack

    February 22, 2022 at 3:17 am

    What’s the company that invented this so I can keep an watch on it’s stock

  33. Keith Brown

    February 22, 2022 at 3:24 am

    I misread! :

  34. Lokesh Kumar Singh

    February 22, 2022 at 3:27 am

    Indian doctor in Assam already done this 20 years back with a Chinese doctor.
    And he said that many things like kidney,liver and heart etc can be transplanted in humans.
    But at that time he is lacking genetic modification.

    • Birdbeak

      February 22, 2022 at 8:58 am

      We have been Gene editing since the beginning of agriculture, selecting the biggest and healties plans for the next generation

    • Birdbeak

      February 22, 2022 at 8:58 am

      Healthiest plants*

  35. Lokesh Kumar Singh

    February 22, 2022 at 3:30 am

    You can search Dhaniram Baruah Indian first pig heart transplant in world.

  36. G. Dave3

    February 22, 2022 at 3:48 am

    And I expect the man will carry on with his heart disease causing animal based diet, so the cycle of cruelty & abuse continues. First in eating animals, then in using animals for a ‘cure’, whether it’s a Pigs Heart or Diabetes, Blood pressure, hypertension meds. That involves horrendous torture of animals in Vivisection Labs. ✊🏽🌻🌎

    • Fred Bassett

      February 22, 2022 at 7:16 am

      The strongest survives.
      My question is, how did you?

    • G. Dave3

      February 22, 2022 at 5:52 pm

      @Fred Bassett

  37. Diego Figueroa

    February 22, 2022 at 5:11 am

    This is crazy not a scientific achievement. God condemns such things. God gave us and want our human hearts to be given to him. If someone’s time has been to him to die, why the human is so foolish to try to be the givers of life? Oh foolish human with foolish paths full of deceit!
    Proverbs 23:26  My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  38. Mike Tsai

    February 22, 2022 at 5:41 am

    Bespoke!!

  39. srinivas hd

    February 22, 2022 at 6:04 am

    🙏🙏🙏👍

  40. MrEasiertolie

    February 22, 2022 at 7:06 am

    I love her enthusiasm.

  41. MOHAMAD AFFANDI ABDUL AZIZ

    February 22, 2022 at 8:04 am

    Very informative. Love your accent too😘

  42. T L

    February 22, 2022 at 11:44 am

    Pretty cool that the pig can be used to save lives.

  43. QoM

    February 22, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Disgusting! Yall need to stop trying to copy sci fi. There is nothing ethical about it.
    Shame on you all.

  44. Jaren Jansen

    February 22, 2022 at 3:17 pm

    The Muslim was stunned to speak….

  45. Fionn Kilfeather

    February 22, 2022 at 4:55 pm

    Taking otherkins to the next level! 🤣

  46. ISHRAQ

    February 22, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    So the pig died!

  47. Clint

    February 23, 2022 at 1:18 am

    Who wants sghetti and butter?!

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