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

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

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

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

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

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.&nb ...

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

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

Animal organs have been under development as a possible substitute for human ones ... especially the two heart transplant patients who went before her did not survive. The pig organ is so healthy ...

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

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