The family later moved to northern Israel.

but that hasn’t deterred researchers hunting an alternative to the dire shortage of transplantable organs.“We have to have the courage to continue,” said University of Maryland transplant surgeon Dr.

Back in 2022, Griffith had a hard time figuring out how to ask a dying patient if he’d consider undergoing the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig heart.“I was so afraid to mention the word pig heart,” Griffith said. He marveled that patient David Bennett responded with a joke about oinking and made clear if thefailed that “maybe you’ll learn something for others like me.”

Fast forward to late 2023, when patients at a National Kidney Foundation meeting with FDA officials and pig developers described a life so miserable on dialysis that they, too, would chance an animal organ.“Why not try? That was really what we took back,” said Mike Curtis, CEO of eGenesis, one of the companies developing organs. “It was like we really almost have an obligation to try.”

“The patients pushed us to go ahead,” agreed Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, a Mass General surgeon who’d been reluctant to even broach the idea – but last March, four months after that meeting, gave a longtime patient the first gene-edited pig kidney.

In Palm Springs, California, Carl McNew emailed NYU to ask about volunteering while he’s still fairly healthy.four steals and no turnovers in a 130-121 victory over the New York Knicks. He became the first NBA player with at least 30 points, 15 assists, 10 rebounds and no turnovers in a postseason game since turnovers were first tracked in 1977-78.

Then he poked some fun at the situation.“I know people were saying, ‘Free Pops’ and Pops is free, but he was not in jail,” the younger Haliburton said after Indiana took a 3-1 lead. “He has a very beautiful home, very pretty to watch basketball. So he was just fine. I just wanted to win.”

There’s no word yet on whether the father will attend Game 5 in New York when Indiana could clinch its second trip to the NBA Finals.But all kidding aside, it’s been an odd season — and postseason — for the younger Haliburton.