Continuing significant advancements in the field of xenotransplantation, surgeon-scientists from the University of Maryland ...

Continuing significant advancements in the field of xenotransplantation, surgeon-scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine ...

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell ...

At the Department of Production Animal Medicine, we have been studying the diseases, reproduction, behaviour and welfare of pigs for a long time. The topics have been closely linked to problems ...

Dr. Greene’s “laboratory” is a guinea pig’s eye. Delicately, he plants various types of foreign tissue in the pigs’ eyes. Some “take” and grow. Sometimes the transplanted tissue ...

US woman has gene-edited pig-kidney transplant, and scientists hope experimental surgery could save thousands of lives ...

Levitation, until now just a cartoonist’s gag, a magician’s stunt or a children’s trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of “the case of the flying pig” in ...

Pig organs like the kidney transplanted on March ... says Griffith. “That would turn medicine on its ear.” He believes patients who receive xenotransplants might have survival rates that ...

A beacon of hope for humanity! That's what a 53-year-old woman's testimony suggests, as she becomes the third person to ...

The pig used in the transplant had been genetically ... chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, was in the operating theatre during the surgery.