BLACKSBURG: Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud …
Richard Slayman, who became the first person to receive genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died at 62. Richard had undergone the transplantation in March this year.“The Mass General transplant …
Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old United States veteran, was dying of heart failure and had explored nearly every avenue for a life-saving transplant. Amidst the uncertainty, a glimmer of hope remained: …
Marking an extraordinary milestone, a kidney transplanted from a genetically engineered miniature pig has kept a monkey alive for more than two years — one of the longest survival times …