What if pigs were to grow hearts and save human lives?

This dream became a reality earlier this month when doctors in Baltimore transplanted the heart of a gene-edited pig into a man with a life-threatening ailment, presenting us with the latest example of a medical miracle.

The New York Times called the emergency transplantation “a groundbreaking procedure that offers hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with failing organs.”

Sadly, GM technology still faces a few pockets of resistance, especially among European political activists. Their anti-GM ideologies have delayed the adoption of genetically modified crops in several developing nations, especially in Africa. This is one of the main reasons why that continent still lags the rest of the world in food production.

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I’m tempted to think that without the advent and acceptance of GM crops, we wouldn’t now stand at the threshold of a new branch of medicine involving organs harvested from gene edited pigs.

If we’re fortunate, perhaps the spread of pig-to-human organ transplants will persuade the few remaining anti-GM technology protestors to abandon their ill-advised fight against modern farming.

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