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Great comment and I would add that this has already happened: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/04/1051725/xenotransplant-patient-died-received-heart-in

• pazimzadeh 3y ago
  Yeah, but that operation was rushed seemingly so that the team involved would get more glory. No one from the International Xenotransplantion Association, nor any other collaborators in academia, were consulted prior to the procedure. Source: I know people "close to the matter" since my mom started the collaboration with Revivicor while she was at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
  • iancmceachern 3y ago
    Very interesting, thank you. I've worked in the LVAD/Artificial Heart and Dialysis industries designing products for 20 years. I've been following the Revivacor stuff (all xenotransplantation stuff really) for years. I remember seeing some of the folks involved speak and prefict this progress in recent ISHLT and ASAIO conferences. I'm happy to have learned yet something new on this topic, thanks!
• bertil 3y ago
  > this has already happened is by far the worst possible response to a thread detailing an extinction event, with the closest equivalent being the mycologist self-immolation in _The Last Of Us_. But… thank you for the reference. I missed that. I'm happy we are not dead.