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One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.
The heart xenotransplant was finally performed by the UMMC cardiac transplantation team on January 7, 2022. That morning, the heart was removed from a 1-year-old, 240-pound genetically modified pig supplied by regenerative medicine company Revivicor.
Quite. My guess is in vitro fertilisation, followed by gene editing of the fertilised egg, before implantation. Then you can breed a population of GM pigs suitable for organ transplants.
source: https://www.umms.org/ummc/pros/physician-briefs/transplant/heart-transplant/porcine-to-human-cardiac-xenotransplantation
That doesn’t answer the question….
Quite. My guess is in vitro fertilisation, followed by gene editing of the fertilised egg, before implantation. Then you can breed a population of GM pigs suitable for organ transplants.