Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

The pig for this surgery was provided by Doctor Deng-Ke ... a dying man in the US became the first patient in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

In 2013, Wang and his colleagues were the first in China to successfully transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived 14 days. The team said it has also done pig-to-monkey heart ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...

The pig for this surgery was provided by Doctor Deng-Ke ... a dying man in the US became the first patient in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.

And in that surgery, they put the pig kidney into ... a man named David Bennett became the first person to receive a pig heart transplant. NEERGAARD: And Dr. Bartley Griffith, who was the surgeon ...

The surgery in medical history ... organ shortages The successful liver transplant follows previous advances in pig-to-human transplants, including heart and kidney transplants.