Enlarge / The transplant team with the replacement heart. (credit: The transplant team with the replacement heart. ) On Monday, the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced that its staff had done the first transplant of a pig’s heart into a human. The patient who received it had end-stage heart disease and was too […]
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Gene-editing tool Has its Inescapable Nobel
Expand / Emmanuelle Charpentier reminds everyone about penalizing safety at the beginning of a press conference after the announcement of her Nobel Prize. (charge: Pictures Alliance/Getty Pictures ) On Wednesdaythe Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Chemistry Nobel into Emmanuelle Charpentier along with Jennifer Doudna, that made crucial contributions to the growth of the CRISPR gene-editing […]