Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
A biotechnology company in Research Triangle Park has taken a major step to develop a new option for patients in need of a ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
The hope is that pig kidneys could help ease the organ-shortage problem in the U.S. According to the transplant team, Andrews had just a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney in the next five ...
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Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth PatientSurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.The ...
It’s too early to know how Andrews will fare but if the pig kidney were to fail, Riella said he’d still qualify for a human transplant and, now deemed inactive on the transplant list ...
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