Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

In January 2022, a dying man in the US became the first patient in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. David Bennett, who was suffering from terminal heart ...

Pig-to-human transplantation represents ... to-human transplantation of a genetically modified heart in 2022 (ref. 5). The recipient, David Bennett, survived for 60 days after the procedure ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

Two men in the US have received genetically modified pig heart transplants since 2022. The first, 57-year-old David Bennett, survived two months, while 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette survived six ...