The first patient to receive such an organ died after two months. “At least now I have hope,” the second recipient said before the surgery. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Baltimore have transplanted ...

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday. The groundbreaking surgery was done on ...

Editor’s Note (11/1/23): Pig heart transplant recipient Lawrence Faucette died on October 30, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, where Faucette received the surgery and ...

Researchers hope that a person who has so far lived for a week with a genetically modified pig heart will provide a trove of data on the possibilities of xenotransplantation. The first person to ...

The first man to receive a transplanted pig’s heart died of heart failure due to several factors, not organ rejection, leading the doctors involved in the trial to call it a success. David Bennett, 57 ...

Surgeon Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MD leads a team placing a genetically-modified pig heart into a storage device at the Xenotransplant lab before its transplant on David Bennett, a 57-year-old patient ...

The breakthrough may lead one day to new supplies of animal organs for transplant into human patients. By Roni Caryn Rabin A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart ...