One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene-edited pig on Sept. 20 after his own heart began to fail. He was not a candidate for a human heart transplant because his medical condition ...

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, surgeons perform a pig heart transplant into Lawrence Faucette at the school’s hospital in Baltimore, Md., in September 2023.

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking ...

Topline. Surgeons with the University of Maryland Medical Center were able to successfully transplant a pig’s heart into 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette on Wednesday, who was facing death with end ...

The second pig heart transplant recipient in history is recovering. Is this the future of organ transplants? By Rae Hodge. Published October 23, 2023 2:20PM (EDT) ...

Lawrence Faucette, 58, was the second person in the world to undergo a pig heart transplant. He died Monday after his body showed signs of rejection, doctors said.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting ...

With xenotransplantation -- animal-to-human transplantation -- poised to address the global organ shortage crisis, a ...

In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.