how come we can’t scaffold animal hearts and use them for organ transplants?

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is there just something fundamentally different about animal hearts?

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I mean we use pig valves in some valve replacement procedures, but the reason why whole heart transplants don’t happen from animals is because your body rejects the transplant. There is a LOT of research being done right now to try and make pig hearts viable for human transplantation

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