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

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.

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have successfully grown tiny human hearts in pig embryos that survived up to 21 ...

Bennett survived significantly longer with the gene-edited pig heart than one of the last milestones in xenotransplantation -- when Baby Fae, a dying California infant, lived 21 days with a baboon ...

but they concluded that "this unique pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation can still provide critical information that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone." The genetic modifications ...

Sanjay Gupta’ s“ Animal Pharm” documentary on CNN on May 18 about genetically engineering and cloning pigs to be organ donors for people needing a new heart, liver or kidney. DEAR B.K.: I wrote about ...

Chinese researchers are preparing the details for the publication of another scientific milestone, the creation of a chimera ...

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for ...

A new lab-grown material has revealed that some of the effects of aging in the heart may be slowed and even reversed. The ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant. By Jeré Longman Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, the principal ...

The Heart Knows (now on Netflix) is a tug-your-heartstrings romance that’s literally about hearts: Benjamin Vicuna plays a rich man in need of a heart transplant, and the donor is a poor man ...

Robert Jarvik, who developed the first artificial heart to be permanently implanted in a human — a breakthrough that captured the world’s imagination even as it triggered debates about medical ...