Pigs have been chosen as an ideal species for xenotransplantation due to their physiological similarities to humans and their ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

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.

The 57-year-old patient with a terminal heart condition, who became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart, has died Tuesday, the University of Maryland Medical Center in the ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

“Building consistency and reproducibility into [surgical] procedures generally improves [patient] outcomes,” heart surgeon and researcher Michael Reardon of Houston Methodist Hospital who was not ...

From the BioEdge story: A 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive a successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart on September 20.