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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant ... a doctor transplanted a pig cornea into a human in an unsuccessful ...

While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart ... involving human kidney transplants. eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for ...