Surgeons at the University of Maryland in the US have successfully completed the world's first pig to human heart transplant. Muhammad Mohiuddin, who co-founded the university's ...

Mohiuddin holds a frozen specimen from a pig heart transplant that has been preserved for future study. Mohiuddin is a pioneer in the field of xenotransplantation, the process of transplanting ...

This sugar appears on the cell surfaces ... move on to heart transplants in the future. In December 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certified these so-called GalSafe pigs as fit ...

To help address this later-stage rejection, both companies also added several human genes to the pig cells. These genes make ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Will recipients of genetically modified pig hearts remember their ... are needed to understand how far narratives of memory transfer in heart transplantation are universal. And the study doesn ...