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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...
01 Nov, 2023, 05.52 PM IST
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...
14 Sep, 2023, 10.28 PM IST
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...
22 Jan, 2022, 12.10 AM IST
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...
20 Oct, 2021, 10.24 AM IST
Why xenotransplants through pigs are making headlinesBelieve it or not, pigs might soon extend the lives of people waiting for organ donations.
10 Apr, 2016, 04.28 AM IST