A pig heart, transplanted earlier this year into a human patient who died two months later, was infected with a pig virus, according to the surgeon who performed the procedure. The virus that was ...

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically ...

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday he's doing well three days after the highly experimental ...

In two studies published Thursday, researchers discovered why transplanted pig organs were being rejected from human patients and how to reverse it.

Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in ...

One of the marvels of modern biotechnology was the pig kidney transplant, but less than two months after it was made to replace the human organ, surgeons had to remove it. The kidney from the ...

In the early hours of January 7, 2022, David Bennett was out of options. At just 57 years old, he was bedridden, on life support, and in desperate need of a heart transplant for which he was ...

Chinese researchers are preparing the details for the publication of another scientific milestone, the creation of a chimera with a human heart and a kidney developed from human stem cells in pig ...

A pig-to-human transplant center is being built in Minnesota, local media has reported. United Therapeutics, a U.S. biotech company, has purchased 32 acres of land in Stewartville for $4.5 million to ...