One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows ...

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An ailing 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease has been given a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig in a first-of-its-kind procedure, doctors revealed Thursday. Surgeons at ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully connected a functioning liver from a genetically modified pig to a human body.* In a step toward testing the procedure in living people, a team at the ...

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