Scientific American1d
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 ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
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 ...
Time7d
A Second Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified ... editing platform CRISPR, which allowed scientists to modify the organ to make it more compatible with the human ...
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 ...
CNN8d
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
He was on the transplant wait ... the United States using pigs that have been genetically modified, so their organs are more compatible with humans’. Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR ...
Nature11d
The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans
As part of the trial, which will begin later this year, kidneys from genetically modified ... Will pigs solve the organ crisis? The future of animal-to-human transplants The FDA’s green light ...
HealthDay on MSN10d
FDA Approves Clinical Trials for Pig Kidney Transplants in Humans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants ...
FDA Greenlights Studies of Pig Kidney Transplants in Humans
The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph5d
Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth Patient
The latest transplant was part of a new clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) testing whether genetically modified pig organs can work long-term in human patients.