Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.
FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.
A 66-year-old New Hampshire man received the kidney as part of a small pilot study at Mass General Brigham. United Therapeutics, another developer of gene-edited pig organs, just won FDA approval for ...
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.
FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants. Trial involves gene-edited pig kidneys ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney.
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...