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Which Heart Would You Choose For Heart Transplant ?

If for some reasons you needed heart transplant, and the only choices you have is either a monkey’s heart or a pig’s heart, which one would you choose and why?
Thu, 17 Dec 2009
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A pig heart. Johns Hopkins University is already studying just that. The reason why they are using Pig hearts is because they believe pigs are a larger animal whose responses are more similar to those of people.
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Which Heart Would You Choose For Heart Transplant ?

A pig heart. Johns Hopkins University is already studying just that. The reason why they are using Pig hearts is because they believe pigs are a larger animal whose responses are more similar to those of people.