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

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

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

More than 100,000 people in the USA are on the organ-transplant waiting list at any given time, and 17 die each day without ... of a genetically edited pig kidney 4. Richard Slater, a 62-year ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney ...

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 ...

The xenotransplantation approach seeks to alleviate shortage of human organs, and could potentially provide a lifeline to ...

XI'AN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese medical team has successfully transplanted a gene-engineered pig kidney into a uremic patient, marking a major clinical milestone in cross-species organ ...

This story was originally published by WBUR. It was shared as part of the New England News Collaborative. Tim Andrews leans back in a chair and pulls up the bottom of his t-shirt, revealing a pale ...