Recently, researchers from Germany and Switzerland reported that “modifications to a cross species transplantation approach… for the first time has enabled baboons that received genetically modified pig hearts to survive more than six months”.

The researchers replaced the hearts of five baboons with those from genetically engineered pigs. This is seen as a breakthrough in human trials for inter-species transplants.

Interestingly, in 1997, Dr Dhani Ram Baruah was arrested for transplanting a pig heart to a human recipient.

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The fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians in the UK, Baruah is now confined to his office at a 50-acre campus he set up with his life’s savings.