Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig have announced the happy news that they are now a family of five, after welcoming baby Evie.

Organ transplant is a potentially lifesaving medical intervention, but there is a critical lack of donor organs. Even in a wealthy country like the US, there are about 100,000 people on the waiting l ...

Genetically engineered pig hearts can potentially serve as a temporary life-saving support for critically ill infants awaiting heart transplants, according to work led by Children’s Hospital Los ...

Xenotransplant could offer these babies a much better chance at surviving the time it takes to match with a suitable heart for transplant. “Not only could the outcomes be better, but a pig heart ...

A team from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the first in the world to study the use of genetically engineered pig hearts for infants waiting for heart transplantation. The study was led by ...

To date, eight of the 14 baboons have survived for several months with a pig heart. One of the baboons has so far lived for 620 days—nearly 21 months—the longest a nonhuman primate has ever ...