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

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Babies born with serious heart defects might be given a pig’s heart temporarily while waiting for a human donor heart. A pig’s liver could potentially serve as a bridge for those in need of a ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

David Bennett Sr. had received a gene-altered pig heart in January as a last-chance option after he was "deemed ineligible" for a traditional heart transplant Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports ...

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 ...

The antibodies stick to the cells and set off a chain of ... He was the first to receive a United Therapeutics pig heart, ...