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 ...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
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 ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
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 ...
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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 U.S.The ...
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A Second Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on ...
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 ...
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FDA OKs clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in people
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...