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

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.

Before the medical feat was made on living humans, scientists transplanted pig kidneys into brain-dead people and nonhuman primates. In 2023, researchers at MGH reported that genetically modified ...

BOSTON (WKRC/WCVB/CNN Newsource) - Tim Andrews recently became only the fourth person to receive a kidney from a pig, walking out of Massachusetts General Hospital with renewed hope. "I'm not ...

United Therapeutics along with another company, eGenesis, have been working since 2021 on experiments implanting pig kidneys into humans: initially brain-dead patients and more recently living ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants. United Therapeutics along with ...