Engineered organs could put an end to transplant waiting lists
By Antonio Regalado – MIT Technology Review
WHO
eGenesis, Makana Therapeutics, United Therapeutics
WHEN
10 to 15 years
For two months last year, a 57-year-old man named David Bennett lived with a pig heart beating inside his chest. Surgeons at the University of Maryland had put it there to see: Could a gene-edited pig’s heart keep a person alive?
Far more people need an organ transplant to live than can get one. There are around 130,000 organ transplants each year around the world, but many more people die waiting for an organ or because they never even made it onto a transplant waiting list.