The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
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 ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
Now at 74 days post-transplant, Looney holds the record for the longest-living recipient of a pig organ and is the best proof yet that pig organs could be a viable source for donor organs.