The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant was caused by "an unexpected ...

In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a ...

Richard Slayman, the first successful recipient of a pig-to-human kidney transplant, died in May from heart complications unrelated to the procedure, according to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent, led by the research of a Northeastern University professor.

While it seems farfetched, Taylor is confident one could turn a pig organ into a human organ. Surgeons already regularly transplant pig heart valves into people, she said. Currently, Miromatrix uses ...