“In the United States, 150,000 people are ... exists normally alongside human organ transplants. How would you decide that this pig heart goes to this patient, and this other human organ goes ...

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

Surgeons in the US who transplanted a genetically modified ... Maryland Medical School carried out the world’s first pig-to-human transplant on a living patient – this time involving a heart.

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 ...

The world’s first successful transplant of a pig’s ... s new heart was “working and looks normal”. “We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us,” he said.

Experts say tests on nonhuman primates and last month’s experiment with a human body pave the way for the first experimental pig kidney or heart transplants in living people in the next several ...

became the first human to have the heart ... organ transplants, but the story stirred up ethical questions about who deserves access to the scarce supply of human organs in the US.

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.

US surgeons say they have successfully ... Similar tests have been done in non-human primates, but not people, until now. Using pigs for transplants is not a new idea though.

A Maryland man who lived with a transplanted, genetically-modified pig's heart ... us. He lay in bed breathing hard, and was kind of warm." The procedure, although a significant animal-to-human ...