Although brain-dead organ donors have routinely been maintained on life-support until recipients of their donor organs could be identified, UAB is now the first to publish the results of this novel ...

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Earlier this year a pig heart was successfully transplanted into a human for the very first time. Unfortunately, the patient lived for just under 2 months. But it still marks a big milestone in the ...

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.

Doctors in Guangzhou, China, transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human for the first time Aug. 25, highlighting the potential of xenotransplantation to transform medical care.

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