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welcome back to the nature podcast. This week we'll be hearing about the latest advances

in heart xenotransplants and finding out how soil bacteria fight phages. I'm Charmany

Bundell. And I'm Benjamin Thompson.

First up on the show this week, reporter Noah Baker has been taking the pulse of heart transplants.

The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967 in Cape Town.

This pioneering feat was unfortunately unsuccessful,

and the patient died within a few weeks.

But as time went on, techniques were improved.

Outcomes became more favourable. Fast forward to 1981, and Bruno

Reichart carried out Germany's first successful heart transplant. That started the re-renewal

of heart transplantation in Germany, because everybody thought if such a stupid guy can do it,

we can do it as well.

Bruno went on to do Germany's first heart-lung transplant

and became the president of the International Federation for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

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