The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
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 ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...