NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address the transplant shortage. More than 100 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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‘Superwoman’ Towana Looney, the only person in the world with a functioning pig organ, is thriving after a record two months
Alabama woman becomes longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant, defying expectations and paving the way for future xenotransplantation.
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First Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Functioned Until Recipient's Death
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
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Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth Patient
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the US. The recipient of the genetically modified pig organ was a 66-year-old man with kidney ...
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 ...
Pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...