Cardiac surgery is one of the most complex areas of medicine. Every move can make the difference between life and death. At ...

“We had a real breakthrough in an effort to try and ... “We inserted an engineered heart from a pig into a woman who had no other alternatives. She only had one kidney- she’d given away ...

The world’s first successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human being has been carried out, giving hope to thousands of people desperately in need of replacement organs. David Bennett ...

The 57-year-old patient with a terminal heart condition, who became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart, has died Tuesday, the University of Maryland Medical Center in the ...

Pig heart valves have been used as replacements in humans since the 1960s, but in those cases, the tissue is chemically treated to kill off the cells including the alpha-gal sugar. Presumably ...

A pig heart provided by Revivicor was used in the first pig-to-human heart transplantation in January 2022, though the recipient died later that year. The company has since been involved in two ...