Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

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

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

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

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 ...

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

The hope is that pig kidneys could help ease the organ-shortage problem in the U.S. According to the transplant team, Andrews had just a 9% chance of receiving a human ... he had a heart attack ...