Kyiv was burning as Dr. Borys Todurov sped through the city in an ambulance, undeterred by the deep thuds of explosions and ...

Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene-edited pig on Sept. 20 after his own heart began to fail. He was not a candidate for a human heart transplant because his medical condition ...

First-ever pig-to-human heart transplant offers hope for thousands in need of organs. Karen Weintraub. USA TODAY. A Maryland man has lived for three days with a pig heart beating inside his chest.

Surgeons at Tampa General Hospital successfully performed the world’s first known bloodless heart and liver transplant on May 31. Doctors said the nine-hour operation was possible through close ...

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

A new article has offered insights into the world’s first pig-to-human heart transplant, which took place earlier this year. Researchers report the patient died unexpectedly two months after the ...

To transplant a pig heart into a human, some major challenges have to be addressed, Dickfeld said: immune system rejection of the organ, infection and the possibility of abnormal heart rhythms.

Maryland surgeons transplant genetically-modified pig's heart into human patient in medical first 02:53. In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort ...

Last year, there were just over 3,800 heart transplants in the U.S., a record number, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation's transplant system.

Nader Moazami, (center) surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, leads the team as a genetically modified pig heart is transplanted into a recently ...

The first pig-heart transplant went to a man who couldn't get on the waiting list for a human heart. Hospitals deemed the patient ineligible because he had previously failed to follow doctors' orders.

Neither the pig heart nor the pig kidney transplant procedure was part of a clinical trial. Because Bennett was going to die without the transplant, the Food and Drug Administration, which ...