Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain dead individual and the lungs were viable and functioning for nine ...

A pig heart, transplanted earlier this year into a human patient who died two months later, was infected with a pig virus, according to the surgeon who performed the procedure. The virus that was ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

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 after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, ...

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows ...

Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say if it played any role in the man ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died. The University of Maryland announced that the 57-year-old man died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking experiment. It is ...

ABC News visits scientists raising pigs with genetically modified organs. There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant and it’s estimated that another person is added ...

New York, NY - Animal-to-human transplantation of hearts is far too risky despite the desperate need for donor organs, with about 1200 patients dying each year while waiting for heart and lung ...