when it achieved a significant milestone in the field of xenotransplantation by successfully transplanting a genetically modified pig heart into a human recipient. The case study published in A ...

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 ...

That's where Wang and colleagues come in—creating human valve cells and using them to make the pig heart valve compatible. The paper describes two major advances. How to reprogram human skin ...

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.