A 58-year-old man has become the second person ever to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. The patient, Lawrence Faucette, was facing near death from heart failure and wasn’t ...

Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near. He was 58 and had end-stage heart failure. Peripheral ...

It seems like organized chaos. Five lab members move around a room the size of a galley kitchen. On this day, three high school students also squeeze into the medical lab, closely peering at a pig ...

Bristow High School students Greg Britt, Megan Mudgett and Jacqueline Barnett (from left) inspect a dissected portion of a pig's heart during a summer camp Tuesday at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa.

As researchers mark the loss of the first living recipient of a pig kidney, they share what they’ve learnt about xenotransplantation. Last week, the first living person to receive a kidney from a pig ...

Doctors are exploring how to use animal organs but keep them outside people's bodies. Surgeon Abraham Shaked thinks he has probably carried out more than 2,500 liver transplants. But in December 2023, ...

FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the ...

In the early hours of January 7, 2022, David Bennett was out of options. At just 57 years old, he was bedridden, on life support, and in desperate need of a heart transplant for which he was ...

Lawrence Faucette, the recipient of the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, has died nearly six weeks after the surgery, as announced by the University of Maryland Medical Center ...

But the most common kind of organ rejection develops over a month. That pig heart in Maryland worked great for nearly 50 days until abruptly faltering. Watching how pig kidneys reach those timepoints ...