Another patient has received a transplant ... human body often rejects foreign tissue. Andrews' pig kidney is possible ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

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

Doctors and MGH officials said Andrews is doing well with no signs of rejecting the organ ... human. A group of MGH surgeons became the first to perform a transplant of a genetically modified pig ...

He was on the transplant wait ... the United States using pigs that have been genetically modified, so their organs are more compatible with humans’. Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified ... gene-editing platform CRISPR, which allowed scientists to modify the organ to make it more compatible with the human ...

The latest transplant was part of a new clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) testing whether genetically modified pig organs can work long-term in human patients.