A biotechnology company in Research Triangle Park has taken a major step to develop a new option for patients in need of a ...

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

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 ...

Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a ...

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

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

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

Several risk tools can accurately predict individual baseline risks of adverse events in people with chronic kidney disease. Here, the authors examine methods of assessing risk and discuss risk ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different kinds ...

MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of ...