Pigs are seen inside their cage at a farm in La Ca village, outside Hanoi April 27, 2009. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM ANIMALS SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTXEFD2 (REUTERS/Kham) NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Advances in transplant technology could pave the way for the use of animal organs in people some day which could help solve the problem of the donor organ shortage, researchers say. In a new study, scientists transplanted hearts from genetically engineered pigs into baboons whose immune systems had been suppressed, to prevent them from rejecting the transplants . The transplanted hearts survived in their recipients for more than 500 days, the researchers reported April 28 at a meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in Toronto. The research has not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, but it has been submitted for publication. [ Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body ] [sidebar] About 120,000 … [Read more...] about Animals could become human organ donors some day, researchers claim