The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis ...

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

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.

BOSTON (WKRC/WCVB/CNN Newsource) - Tim Andrews recently became only the fourth person to receive a kidney from a pig, walking out ... about animal-to-human transplants. Syd Johnson, a bioethicist ...

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

Looney said she also understands why the two kidney patients and especially the two heart transplant patients who went before her did not survive. The pig organ is so healthy, she said ...

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.

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery. A Mass General ...