Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

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

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

The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...

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

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

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

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

David-Alexandre C. Gros, MD, CEO at Eledon, discusses the milestone and the role of immunosuppression regimens for durable ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...