May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...
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 ...
The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died. The University of Maryland announced that the 57-year-old man died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking experiment. It is ...
NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...