An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard successfully performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. Since then, thousands of lives have been saved by this groundbreaking technology ...
News of the first human-to-human heart transplant, led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, made headlines around the world. Journalists and film crews flooded into Cape Town's Groote ...
The claim that a child recipient of a heart transplant was able to help catch her donor's killer appeared to originate from a ...
Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...
Lab-grown ‘ghost hearts’ work to solve organ transplant shortage ... bioengineered human hearts in their lab with the goal of one day eliminating the need for heart transplants.
In a Newsweek essay about performing the first pig-heart transplant, Griffith described a "severe obstacle" that made Bennett ineligible for a human heart: He had a history of being "medically ...
"It was one of the most incredible things, to see a pig heart pounding away and beating inside a human chest," Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone Transplant Institute where the ...
German scientists plan to clone and then breed this year genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors for humans ... in the world’s first pig-to-human transplant. Eckhard Wolf, a scientist ...
What happened on December 3 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! Get On This Day In History delivered straight ...