Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world’s first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The ...

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 ...

Daughter Brittany Harvill and Lisa Pisano_1Lisa Pisano, 54, has become the first person to ever undergo a combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant operation. Pictured: Pisano (right) with her ...