Genetically engineered pig hearts can potentially serve as a temporary life-saving support for critically ill infants awaiting heart transplants, according to work led by Children’s Hospital Los ...

Despite selecting a patient with low pre-existing anti-pig antibodies, the transplant team found a surge in these antibodies, which caused damage to the heart and ultimately led to graft failure.

This research used a pig model of heart attacks. In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from ...

In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart failure, survived almost two months with a pig ...

The practice of pig heart transplants has recently come under the spotlight in the medical field, especially after a U.S.-based team of doctors successfully implanted a pig heart in a patient.

“A heart is a heart, whether it’s a pig or a cow or a human,” he said. Students in the foundational anatomy course in Iowa State University’s animal science department use virtual dissection to ...

A virtual dissection ... students learn anatomy basics such as the cardiovascular system and central nervous system, before moving on to animal-specific lessons later in the semester, Kerns said. "A ...

Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old man who in September became the second person in history to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center ...

Lawrence Faucette, the second patient in the world to receive a transplanted pig heart, has passed away. Despite encouraging signs in the weeks immediately following his procedure, Faucette’s ...

The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.Lawrence Faucette, 58 ...

Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old man with end-stage heart disease, died Monday, more than a month after surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center successfully transplanted a pig’s ...