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

A 66-year-old man whose kidneys were failing is now the fourth person who has received a gene-edited pig kidney, ...

eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for human transplant. In February, the FDA approved the first large ...

The company was required to complete a preclinical study that ... to keep the organ similar to the size of a human kidney rather than a larger pig kidney. The other six edits involve inserting ...

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

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN ...

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 ...