For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

Looney has now been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own, beating the previous record of 60 days that anyone has survived with an organ from another species. The Gadsen ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant. By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure. United Therapeutics Corp ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The FDA has granted approval for the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in human patients, a major step in the effort to address a nationwide ...

Longest Pig Organ Transplant Survivor Passes 60 Days With New Kidney By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An Alabama woman has become the longest-living ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different ...