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

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

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

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Massachusetts General Hospital has performed its second successful genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a patient, MGH reported on Friday. The “miracle” transplant is giving 66-year-old Tim ...

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

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

Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a three-person pilot study. (Video production: Laura Bargfeld) ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The FDA has granted approval for the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in human patients, a major step in the effort to address a nationwide organ ...

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

But the transplants performed so far, outside of rigorous clinical trials, provide limited evidence. "If this person lives for a good long time, whatever that means — six months, a year, longer — with ...