The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by U ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

United Therapeutics is pioneering a new frontier in organ transplants using pig kidneys. STORY HIGHLIGHTS FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant ... tissues, or cells from one species to another. The transplantable kidneys come from pigs that ...

In January, the fourth person in the U.S. received a pig kidney transplant. The kidney was placed in a 66-year-old man by surgeons at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, The New York ...

NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN ...