Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature. The ...

A ‘heart patch’ recently received enthusiastic coverage in the media. A scientist who carried out similar experiments is ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

These 10 patches, each comprised of about 400 million heart cells, kept the woman stable until she could receive a heart transplant three months later, according to a paper published Wednesday ...

She covers human interest, health ... was 29 that she had genetic cardiomyopathy and would eventually need a heart transplant. In May 2021 she had the procedure at North Shore University Hospital ...

First pig-to-human heart transplant: what can scientists learn? Immunologist and surgeon Yongxiang Zhao at Guangxi Medical University in Nanning, China, wondered whether he could harness this ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis ...

Fast forward to the nursing team Vento now leads on the fourth floor of Jacobs Medical Center. Compassionate care is at the ...

Tegoprubart has been part of other groundbreaking transplants, including the second-ever pig-to-human heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center in September 2023. It is ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...