The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s first pig kidney recipient had underlying heart disease that ... to survive long enough for a human transplant. “Those are the patients ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery. A Mass General ...
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
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