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

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 ...

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

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

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into ...

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...