Tim Andrews is recovering well after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Massachusetts General Hospital is ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Doctors at Xijing Hospital, affiliated with Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a ...

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human ...

Tim Andrews had not felt great in a long time, but he says all that changed when he became the second patient at Massachusetts General Hospital to undergo a pig kidney transplant. "During the dialysis ...

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama. "I feel ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted into his body six weeks ago. Dr. Leonardo Riella squirts a cold gel on Andrews’ belly, and presses an ...

Doctors at Xijing Hospital, affiliated with Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a multi-gene-edited pig kidney into a patient with end-stage renal ...