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

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

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

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

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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 ...

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

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...