A team led by Children's Hospital Los Angeles has become the first in the world to demonstrate the possibility of using genetically engineered pig hearts as a potential "bridge" to heart transplant ...

Nearly six weeks after his surgery, the world’s second recipient of a genetically modified pig heart has died, the University of Maryland announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old resident ...

Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health. A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors ...

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A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The patient survived for 171 days, offering ...

Only one in four transplant waitlisted patients receive a life-saving organ. Xenotransplantation of pig organs into humans is a promising avenue for addressing organ shortage. Understanding the immune ...

Eledon Pharmaceuticals announced that their investigational anti-CD40L antibody, tegoprubart, was successfully used in the immunosuppression regimen for a patient who recently received a kidney ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR), a public benefit corporation, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Dr. John David Cleveland at CHLA's Heart Institute is investigating using genetically engineered pig hearts as a bridge to support critically ill infants on the waiting list for heart transplant. A ...