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by Capital Client Group, Inc. Over

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100,000 people in America

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are currently waiting on a life-saving

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organ transplant. And people often

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end up waiting for years. They get

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weaker, they get sicker. 17

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people die every day on the waiting list

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because there just aren't enough extra organs to

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go around. But there

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are some possible solutions. My

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colleague, Dylan Matthews, donated his kidney to

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a stranger. He wants more people

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to donate theirs. Scientists

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also have some ideas. Building

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robot hearts. Growing lungs.

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Still, none of these has fundamentally

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changed the organ shortage. Which

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is a persistent problem in almost

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every country. But there

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could be another way forward. An

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experimental procedure that is giving hope to people

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who need organ transplant. To become the first

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person in the world to get a heart

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transplant from a genetically modified pig. for

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the fact that pig hearts are just

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weirder or more foreign than human hearts,

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like the heart is the same, it can

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do the same thing? Yes, the heart

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is basically the same, and that's actually why

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they have decided to use pigs as

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kind of the like main animal

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to transplant, because hearts, livers, they're

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approximately the same size as ours,

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and they pretty much look the same,

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and they function the same. Interesting. And

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in the last few years, there's been

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a lot of progress on xenotransplantation, which

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is the transplanting of animal organs

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in a people. So there

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have been five total operations where living

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people have gotten these pig

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organ transplants. There's been

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two hearts and two kidneys all in the

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US, and then one liver transplanted in China.

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And I wanted to learn

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a bit more about these cases, like what we've

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learned from them. And so I spoke

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to one of the surgeons who did the very

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first pig heart transplant to learn more about what

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happened. What the first pig heart

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transplant? Yeah, and it was only a

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few years ago. So his name is Dr.

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Mohammad Mohoudin, and he's a

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surgeon at the University of Maryland and

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the director of the cardiac xenotransplantation program

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there. Such a cool title. Yeah.

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And he hopes that one day

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pig transplants can work just as well

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and maybe even better than human ones.

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If we get to that stage, the

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patient may choose a pig heart over

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a human heart. I mean, you can

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call me crazy, but this is what

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I believe. But I was

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also curious, what made him and his

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team so confident to do this first

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pig heart operation, considering it's

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never been done before, it's never been done

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successfully. What did he say? Basically,

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it has to do with animal experiments. Like

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before these cases of transplanting pig

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organs into people, there's actually been

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a lot of research on doing

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xenotransplants between different other

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animal species. And that's the kind of work

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that Mohammad's been doing for the past few

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decades. So like

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putting...