Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.
Within four years, 50 per cent of kidney failure patients will die without a transplant. Even breast cancer patients have ...
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes virus family, best known for causing infectious ...
Massachusetts General Hospital has performed its second successful genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a patient, MGH reported on Friday. The “miracle” transplant is giving 66-year-old Tim ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
Three days into my medical career, my first patient died. She was a 27-year-old who succumbed to an autoimmune liver disease. She had been denied a liver transplant for years because she was uninsured ...
Genesis announced that it has completed its second successful human transplant with a genetically engineered pig kidney, with ...