Last year, a 62-year-old man even lived with a pig kidney for almost two months before he died of a sudden heart disease, as recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.There is growing ...

A biotechnology company in Research Triangle Park has taken a major step to develop a new option for patients in need of a ...

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

Genesis announced that it has completed its second successful human transplant with a genetically engineered pig kidney, with ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

The hospital, which completed the world's first kidney xenotransplantation in March 2024, said the latest transplant was ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

United Therapeutics Corp. announced Feb. 4. that it will start a trial in mid-2025 with six patients who have end-stage renal disease. These patients, who have been on dialysis for at least six months ...

United Therapeutics said the FDA has cleared it to begin the first clinical trial testing whether organs from gene-edited pigs could provide a viable option for human patients.

United Therapeutics believes that xenotransplantation offers a therapeutic alternative to dialysis. “Clearance of our IND for this first-ever clinical trial of a xenokidney represents a significant ...

In a process called xenotransplantation, non-human animal organs are transplated to humans, and breeding animals with genome editng is a way to make their organs ultimately more compatible in ...

That's in preparation for the world's first formal studies of xenotransplantation, which is expected to begin some time this year. "Towana represents the culmination of progress we have made in ...