WEDNESDAY, Nov. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A first-of-its-kind clinical trial is beginning in the United States to see if pig ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...

The Bennett family in 2019. David Bennett, Sr. is second from the left in the back row.Photo courtesy of David Bennett, Jr. David Bennett Sr., the first person to receive a pig-heart transplant, died ...

Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the ...

The first surgery in a clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of gene-edited pig kidney transplants in patients with ...

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from 67-year-old Tim Andrews last week. The fourth person in the United ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday said they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human living with kidney disease, the first such procedure in the world. The ...

An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. “It’s like a new ...

With a month behind him and the world's second transplanted pig heart inside him, new results from the University of Maryland School of Medicine show that xenotransplant recipient Lawrence Faucette is ...

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died two months following the operation. David Bennett Sr. died on Tuesday at 57 years old, the University of Maryland Medical Center ...