Pig heart valves also have been used successfully for decades in humans. The blood thinner heparin is derived from pig intestines. Pig skin grafts are used on burns and Chinese surgeons have used ...

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being.

Skin grafting is a surgical procedure for treating burns, traumatic injuries, chronic ulcers and cancer. But traditional sources of graft materials – human, pig and artificial skin – are often ...

19th century — Skin grafts between various species — such ... 1906 — A surgeon from Lyon, France, conducts the first pig-to-human kidney transplant that results in the production of urine.