The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.
Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a three-person pilot study.
For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.
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 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 ...
Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...
The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...
In 1999, a man from New Jersey put Louisville on the map after becoming the first successful hand transplant patient in the ...