The New York Times

Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...
Business Wire

No Difference in Transplant Outcomes Seen for Patients Unlikely to Find a Matched Unrelated Donor When a Donor Search Prognosis Strategy is Used

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A study by the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) found that a donor search prognosis-based strategy helps physicians move patients with blood ...
CNN

For the first time, a genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...
Seattle Times

Scientists perform first pig-to-human lung transplant

Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to treat ailing humans. In recent years, those efforts have begun to bear fruit: Researchers have begun transplanting the hearts and ...