First, the researchers use both mechanical (matching the stiffness of the culture condition with the stiffness of the pig ...

Pig heart valves have been used as replacements in humans since the 1960s, but in those cases, the tissue is chemically treated to kill off the cells including the alpha-gal sugar. Presumably ...

Pig heart valves and pig skin grafts are widely used on human patients and in this case the chosen pigs are the result of gene editing that has removed certain markers that caused patients to ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

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 ...

More recently, attention has turned toward pigs. Today, pig heart valves are widely used in humans, and pig skin is grafted on human burn victims. Pigs make for ideal donors because their organ ...