1 Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
2 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala.
3 Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
Gene-edited pigs could eventually provide organs that are safely and effectively protected from the human immune response without exogenous immunosuppression.