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

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

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 ...

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MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR) to begin a clinical trial that involves transplanting kidneys of gene-edited pigs into people with kidney failure.

United Therapeutics and eGenesis will test genetically modified pig organs on kidney patients Experts say the the trials are ...