US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

The first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig has died. David Bennett, who had terminal heart disease, survived for two months following the surgery in ...

David Bennett Sr. became the first human to have the heart of a genetically modified pig transplanted into his body this month at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.

For the first time, a man has received a heart from a genetically altered pig. A 57-year-old man with a life-threatening heart condition has received a new heart from a genetically altered pig.

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

Her vision blacked out and her heart rate spiked. The same thing happened in Boston a few weeks later, then again in the ...