This is a citation of an outside article. Gravyday is not responsible for its content. Original URL below. Baboons Survive for Half a Year after Heart Transplants from Pigs The cross-species heart procedure brings human trials into view In four adjacent enclosures transplantation researcher Bruno Reichart kept four happy baboons. “They can hop around, eat, drink and they are enjoying life,” he says. “They watch TV—their favorite is the cartoon with the chipmunk.” Most importantly, he says, they were healthy and normal—which is astonishing, given the fact that the hearts beating life in their chests were anything but normal for a baboon.(more)
