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

Massachusetts General Hospital announced that Tim Andrews recovered well enough from the transplant to leave the hospital a ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

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

A 66-year-old New Hampshire man received the kidney as part of a small pilot study at Mass General Brigham. United Therapeutics, another developer of gene-edited pig organs, just won FDA approval for ...

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Tim Andrews, 66, was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease more than two years ago. Since then, he's treated his condition ...

A man who was pardoned after having been convicted for his actions at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 is now wanted by ...

Towana Looney has now lived longer than any person with a kidney from a pig. Looney's body produces antibodies that would reject most human kidneys. Before the pig transplant, she had to spend four ...

they caught subtle signs that rejection was beginning – signs they’d learned to look for thanks to a 2023 experiment when a pig kidney worked for 61 days inside a deceased man whose body was ...