Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

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

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

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 ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

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

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

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

Many patients die awaiting transplant ... which can be fatiguing and increase risk of heart problems. Pigs’ kidneys are similar in size to human kidneys and function in much the same way.

While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart ... involving human kidney transplants. eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for ...