Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
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FDA Approves Clinical Trials for Pig Kidney Transplants in Humans
FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.
Boston surgeons successfully transplant pig kidney in fourth patient
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.
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FDA Approves First Human Trials for Pig Kidney Transplants
The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
Human-like teeth successfully grown in a pig’s mouth
For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.
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Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
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Scientists grew human-like teeth in pigs. Could it lead to living tooth replacements?
Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope their findings could lead to growing living tooth replacements for people.