Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

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

The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by U ...

The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.

The second person ever 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 ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

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 ...

It’s a glimmer of hope."Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after ...