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

Griffith, MD, who surgically transplanted the pig heart into both the first and second patient at UMMC. Dr. Griffith is the Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor in Transplant ...

World's first recipient of pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig. Rick died in 2024 due to an ...

The 2.5-hour transplant procedure was successfully ... one involved a 54-year-old woman who received a pig’s kidney and a heart pump on different days in April 2024. Following a decline, the ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

Wayne Hawson, a professor of transplant surgery at the University ... In October 2023, a patient with heart failure received a pig heart in the U.S. and died six weeks later.

PANJWANI: In January 2022, a man named David Bennett became the first person to receive a pig heart transplant. NEERGAARD: And Dr. Bartley Griffith, who was the surgeon involved here, told us how ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or ...