MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
A race-based method for calculating kidney function resulted in many Black patients being lower on the transplant waitlist ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
A 66-year-old man has become the fourth person in the world to receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, performed ...
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
decided to operate on a patient with less-severe end-stage kidney disease. While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart disease, Andrews had only ...