The surgery, performed by a team at the University of Maryland Medicine, is among the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a pig-to-human heart transplant, a field made possible by new gene editing ...

Griffith, MD, who surgically transplanted the pig heart into both the first and second patient at UMMC. Dr. Griffith is the Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor in Transplant ...

The scientists – who performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant in China more than ... similar to those made in recently reported heart and kidney xenotransplants and a cross-circulation ...

including heart and kidney transplants. Dr. Wang and his team were the first in China to transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived for 14 days, in 2013. They have since also performed ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful but whilst those organs have ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...