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

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

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

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

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.

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.

It’s a glimmer of hope."Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after ...

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, an ...

It’s a glimmer of hope."Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after ...