World-first heart transplant

This timeline features some of the key events in xenotransplantation from the early 1900s onwards. For a more detailed history...

Clinical trials of Living Cell Technologies (LCT) pig cell transplants began in 2009. The trials show that encapsulated pig cells...

Pig cell transplants raise ethical issues, such as whether it is right to use animals to benefit humans and what...

In October 2012, Living Cell Technologies were granted permission by Minister of Health Tony Ryall for trials involving transplanting specially...