The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

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

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

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

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.

Discover the latest breakthrough in organ transplantation as a 66-year-old man becomes the fourth person in the U.S. to receive a pig kidney transplant at Mass ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

Less than a year after becoming the first hospital in the world to transplant a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed its ...

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 ...

United Therapeutics is pioneering a new frontier in organ transplants using pig kidneys. STORY HIGHLIGHTS FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants.