FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants. Trial involves gene-edited pig kidneys ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

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

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...

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

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...

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

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

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

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.

An Alabama woman who is also the second person in history to receive a pig kidney transplant is currently surviving for over ...