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

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

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

One of the Maryland transplant patients showed evidence of a pig virus in the transplanted heart, highlighting concerns that so-called zoonotic viruses could transfer along with the transplant.

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

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

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

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

Another company, eGenesis, said Tuesday it received FDA approval in December for a kidney transplant study on three patients ... received a pig’s kidney and a heart pump on different days ...

While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart ... pig organs to make them more compatible for humans. The trial will ultimately involve 50 patients ...

He suffered a heart ... pig organs a viable, long-term solution for patients,” Kawai said in a statement to The Times. “Although we have a long way to go to make that a reality, this ...