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Congratulations to the Vita Phoenix team on winning the 2025 Red Dot Award: Design Concept! The Vita Phoenix team previously conducted product efficacy testing at our facility, and has now been recognised with the "2025 Red Dot Award: Design Concept" for their project "VITA – Phoenix Homeostasis". Congratulations to the whole team!
Read morePractical notes on large-animal models, study design, and the field at large.
From the first living human heart transplant in 2022 to formal FDA-regulated clinical trials by 2025, xenotransplantation has moved from a one-off case to a defined technical pathway in just four years.
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A pig's heart is the closest anatomical and physiological match to a human's among affordable large-animal models, making it the standard testbed for cardiac catheters before they reach clinical trials, and increasingly, a transplant organ in its own right.
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