It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

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

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

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

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

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

The genetically modified pig kidney during Richard Slayman's surgery ... and had cardiovascular complications going into transplant surgery, while Andrews was relatively healthier and had ...

His doctors advised him he had to get in better shape for the surgery, so he started ... Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, had her transplant in New York using a pig kidney developed by United ...