Clinical trials in humans should not be considered until researchers can get 60% of pig-heart transplants to ... and President of the International Xenotransplantation Association) told Reuters.

Earlier this year, news broke of the first experimental xenotransplantation: A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid rejection.

David Bennett was the first case of a pig heart being transplanted into a human, an example of xenotransplantation — when the cells, tissues or organs from one species are transplanted into another.

Lawrence Faucette, 58, received a pig heart at the University of Maryland ... and Clinical Director of the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program at UMSOM. "Thanks to the bravery of Mr. Faucette ...

What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry ...

The pig heart used came from a genetically modified ... Mohiuddin and Griffith established the country’s first center for cardiac xenotransplantation research and performed the first such ...

Every xenotransplantation expert I spoke to was surprised that Bennett was infected with a pig virus. For twenty years, it’s been known that you need to get rid of pCMV to make pig-heart ...

the Maryland team’s cardiac xenotransplantation chief. In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, surgeons prepare for a pig heart transplant into Lawrence Faucette ...

They understood that xenotransplantation meant transplanting tissue from one animal to a different species. They knew that doctors have long used pig valves to repair the human heart. But what was ...

“It’s just an amazing feeling to see this pig heart work in a human,” said Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, the Maryland team’s xenotransplantation expert. But, he cautioned, “we don’t want to ...

The pig heart was genetically modified to adapt ... The doctors hope that transplanting animal organs, which is called xenotransplantation, could save thousands of those lives.