UK doctors could soon begin giving heart transplant patients organs from PIGS after US case

UK doctors could soon begin giving heart transplant patients organs from PIGS after US case Transplant patients could routinely be given animal organs within years, according to the surgeon behind the world's first operation to give a dying man a pig heart.

Many experts see the field – known as xenotransplantation – as a solution to a global shortage of human organ donors that is expected to get worse as we live longer.

Last week, a genetically modified pig heart was transplanted into a terminally ill heart failure patient and the organ appears to be functioning properly so far. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Three ethical issues around pig heart transplants BBC News
• First pig heart to human transplant is a game-changer, say surgeons BBC News