Surgeons transplanted a donor heart into a young boy, transforming him from a frail patient into a lively kid. When Sarah Lee ...

For the first time, researchers in China have developed hearts containing human cells inside pig embryos.

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

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

Margaret Van Bruggen's family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant surgery that had never been done before.

Being able to transplant kidneys using only local anesthetic could shorten patients' hospital stays and make the procedure ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney has been removed from a transplant patient after it started losing function, according to a statement on Friday from NYU Langone Health. The patient, 54-year ...

Doctors in New York City performed the first-ever combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant on a terminally ill patient. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health carried out the first-of-its ...

A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant, according to a medical center in New York. NYU Langone Health on ...

It’s the first instance of a patient with a mechanical heart pump receiving an organ transplant of any kind. It is the second known transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a living person ...

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically ...

NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...