For a Pleasant Hills couple, it's also the day one year ago, when they started a life-saving journey at Allegheny General ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

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 ...

More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes virus family, best known for causing infectious ...

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

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-seronegative recipients of EBV-seropositive donor (EBV D+/R−) kidneys have an increased risk for ...

The genetically modified pig kidney during Richard ... said Slayman was in worse health and had cardiovascular complications going into transplant surgery, while Andrews was relatively healthier ...

Genesis announced that it has completed its second successful human transplant with a genetically engineered pig kidney, with ...

And hopefully we can get to survival, kidney survival ... grandfather struggled with fatigue and complications from dialysis. He’s on the transplant list but doctors warned it was a long ...