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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

U.S. doctors have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life — a first for medical science. Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine said Monday ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) — The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday.

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month ...