The first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart has died two months after the groundbreaking operation, the ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig did not die due to his body rejecting the organ, according to doctors at the University of Maryland. Instead, doctors said the heart failed ...

Transplanting gene-edited pig kidneys into humans has been hailed as a pioneering procedure and a way to help ease the ...

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed ...

The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died. The University of Maryland announced that the 57-year-old man died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking experiment. It is ...

NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...

Medical pioneer’ has pig kidney removed from his body 271 days after animal-to-human transplant - The first attempts at using pig organs in humans were short-lived ...