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 ...
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 ...
F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients
The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...
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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 ...
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NH man is 2nd person living with a pig kidney
A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Massachusetts General Hospital ...
Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth Patient
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...
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 ...
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Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
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 ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
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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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 Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...