A patient with a new transplanted heart - taken from a genetically altered pig - is recovering following a historic eight-hour operation at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the United ...

During the winter, the pigs are housed in a timber-frame barn with straw walls, which cost £25,000 to install. “We decided to invest in a straw barn as the weather can be so bad with wind ...

Photo by Engin Akyurt/Pixabay Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, has died nearly two months after having the historic surgery.

This handout photo released by the University of Maryland School of Medicine on January 10, 2022 shows surgeons performing a transplant of a heart from a genetically modified pig to patient David ...