Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

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

One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s first pig kidney recipient had underlying heart disease that killed him ...

One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s first pig kidney recipient had underlying heart disease that ... to survive long enough for a human transplant. “Those are the patients ...

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

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery. A Mass General ...

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

While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart ... developing pig organs for human transplant. In February, the FDA approved the first large trial ...