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

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

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

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

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

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

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

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 ...

It’s a glimmer of hope."Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after the ...

It’s a glimmer of hope."Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after ...