Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

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 shows ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from 67-year-old Tim Andrews last week. The fourth person in the United ...

May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...

Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a pig heart transplant have found the organ harbored an animal virus. But University of Maryland doctors cannot yet say if the virus ...

The first person in the world to have a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig was David Bennett. The operation took place in 2022 and the 57-year-old died two months after the procedure, ...

NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...

The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

David Bennett Sr., of Maryland, suffered from terminal heart disease. A Maryland man who earlier this year became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, according to the ...