The second person to receive a pig's heart has died six weeks after the transplant procedure. Lawrence Faucette was a 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease and received a genetically ...
Tim Andrews smiles as he leaves Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Feb. 1, 2025. (Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital via AP) Surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on ...
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...
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The Future of Transplanting Pig Organs in People
More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that ...
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