The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

Malorie Blackman’s moving children’s novel about organ transplantation ... heart of a pig. However, Cameron recognises that the animal – named Trudy – has rights, too, and he faces his ...

Severe complications included a heart attack in July ... officially announce the second pig kidney transplant performed by Massachusetts General Hospital. Their first procedure took place in ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...

United Therapeutics, which has dual headquarters in RTP and Maryland, expects the first transplant ... have received heart transplants from the company's gene-edited pigs. "We're in just a really ...

He was on the transplant wait list ... He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney. The team at Massachusetts General ...