An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only be donated as a gift of life.

He explained having undergone an experimental operation, during which a pig's valve was transplanted into his heart. He said without this surgery, he would probably be dead by now. Christopher ...

In many ways, the idea of using pigs is not all that far-fetched. After all, we have been using pig heart valves to replace human valves since the 1970s. The drugs heparin and insulin were ...

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That’s why pig heart valves are often used in human transplants—and why there’s ongoing research into pig-to-human organ donation (xenotransplantation). It’s wild, but humans share about ...

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