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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Following the successful transplant, the patient was discharged from the hospital and is now off dialysis for the first time in over two years. Similar to the first-ever kidney xenotransplant ...

Less than a year after becoming the first hospital in the world to transplant a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed its ...