In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

However, her immune system rejected the organ ... World's first recipient of pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

"A heart is just a pump ... of them being attacked by a patient's immune system after transplantation. The Chinese researchers propose using pig organs as a temporary support, either to take ...

Genetically engineered pig hearts transplanted into baboons with heart failure allowed them to thrive for over ... were designed to prevent hyperacute rejection, where the immune system launches a ...

One is holding up a pig's heart There are loads of ethical questions ... and you want them to be compatible with the human system," she said. "[For this reason,] I don't think ...

He added: “The heart is just a pump to ... produce albumin and to modulate the immune system. This is the first time we have tried to unravel whether the pig liver could function well in a ...

They are similar in size and genetics to humans, but need DNA editing to try and prevent the immune system rejecting them. The pig liver’s ... the recently reported heart and kidney clinical ...

Pigs are promising sources of organs, but the human immune system rejects transplanted pig ... including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The group also performed a skin transplant using ...

A federal grand jury indicted Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who lived in Maple Grove with his wife & 2 sons.