Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

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

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

But Riella said intense exams showed Andrews’ “heart was in the best shape ... early to know how Andrews will fare but if the ...

Animal organs have been under development as a possible substitute for human ones ... especially the two heart transplant patients who went before her did not survive. The pig organ is so healthy ...

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

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant ... a doctor transplanted a pig cornea into a human in an unsuccessful ...

While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart ... involving human kidney transplants. eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for ...