Scientific American5d
Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Hit Long-Awaited Testing Milestone
Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...
DPA International on MSN1d
Kidneys, heart, lungs, skin: 'High hopes' for pig organs saving lives
In the first few instances, this medical feat has already been achieved - at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals ...
Smithsonian Magazine12d
FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
CNN on MSN11d
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
Harvard Medical School11d
Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
The Associated Press on MSN11d
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
But Riella said intense exams showed Andrews’ “heart was in the best shape ... early to know how Andrews will fare but if the ...
Afro4d
‘Superwoman’ Towana Looney, the only person in the world with a functioning pig organ, is thriving after a record two months
An Alabama woman passed a major milestone on Jan. 25 to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
Time11d
Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
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 ...