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'It may sound crazy, but...': Cardiologist reveals 5 futuristic heart treatments set to become the new normal in heart careCardiologist Dr. Dmitry Yaranov, widely known as @heart_transplant_doc, has outlined what he calls the “crazy future of heart care” in a vi...
Scientists transplant genetically modified pig lung into human for first timeIn a groundbreaking achievement, Chinese researchers successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a brain-dead man. The l...
First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months laterRichard Slayman, 62, passed away two months after a groundbreaking genetically modified pig kidney transplant at Massachusetts General Hosp...
Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman's lifeLisa Pisano's combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options. Then d...
Second recipient of pig heart transplant dies after nearly six weeksA 58-year-old man named Lawrence Faucette, who was suffering from heart failure and disqualified from a conventional heart transplant, unde...
Pig kidney functions in donated body for two-months: Could this transplant be the end of organ shortages? Medical breakthrough explainedA genetically modified pig kidney has achieved an unprecedented milestone by functioning successfully within a human body for approximately...
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsThe latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a decease...
Making pig livers humanlike in quest to ease organ shortageWhile regrowing kidneys isn't as far along, "I was completely stunned" at the progress so far, said Dr. Ron Shapiro, a kidney transplant ex...
A Very Pig-Hearted GestureThe pig that 'donated' its heart in the Maryland operation was genetically modified so that its heart would not trigger the type of fatal p...
In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patientWhile it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for l...
Pig kidneys can be a 'potential miracle' for patients waiting for transplant. Read thisA US medical team carried a surgery involving a genetically modified donor animal and a brain dead patient on a ventilator whose family had...
In a first, surgeons attached a pig kidney to a human — and it workedAlthough many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences of the transplant, which involved a brain-dead patient follo...
Why xenotransplants through pigs are making headlinesBelieve it or not, pigs might soon extend the lives of people waiting for organ donations.
Renowned surgeon KM Cherian builds facility to control and supervise experiments on animalsKM Cherian's Frontier Mediville—the country's first private centre for control and supervision of experiment on animals— is on the verge of...
Indian-origin doctor Hemant Thatte finds ‘solution’ to problem of organ preservationSenior cardiovascular surgeon at Harvard University Dr Hemant Thatte has worked out a 21-chemical solution that could preserve a donated or...