Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

United Therapeutics along with another company, eGenesis, have been working since 2021 on experiments implanting pig kidneys ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

Andrews’ surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

The hope is that pig kidneys could help ease the organ-shortage problem in the U.S. According to the transplant team, Andrews had just a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney in the next five ...