Chinese scientists grow humanized kidneys in pigs
Chinese scientists have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing humanized kidneys...
Recipient of pig’s heart dies
The xenotransplant patient who made history by receiving a pig heart has died, about 40 days after his operation. David Bennett, a 57-year-old with serious...
Recipient of transplanted pig heart dies
David Bennett, the 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart, died on...
US doctors transplant pig heart into human
Surgeons in the United States have implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human patient in a global first, the University of...
Pig kidney transplanted to human patient
NYU Langone Health / photo by Joe Carrotta The first transplant of a genetically engineered, non-human kidney to a human body was recently completed at NYU...