The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.

The first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart has died two months after the groundbreaking operation, the ...

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 ...

A new study reversed transplant rejection twice, uncovering the reasons for transplant rejection on a cellular level ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig did not die due to his body rejecting the organ, according to doctors at the University of Maryland. Instead, doctors said the heart failed ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died. The University of Maryland announced that the 57-year-old man died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking experiment. It is ...

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 that he's doing well three days after the highly ...

The team learned that pig organs were being rejected due to an immune system reaction from specific antibodies -- which ...

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 ...