So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

During a two-and-a-half-hour procedure, doctors at Mass General transplanted a kidney ... pig viruses. Dr. Leo Riella of Mass General Hospital explained, "So viruses that are inside the DNA ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

United Therapeutics and eGenesis will test genetically modified pig organs on kidney patients Experts say the the trials are ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR) to begin a clinical trial that involves transplanting kidneys of gene-edited pigs into people with kidney failure.

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...