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

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

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

Trial involves gene-edited pig kidneys for patients with end-stage renal disease ... began about 20 years ago with the first gene edit. Cells from those pigs were cloned and put into a surrogate ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

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 ...

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 Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment. His effort ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

Xenotransplantation – whereby cells, tissues, or organs are transplanted ... This is MGH’s second genetically edited pig kidney transplant in a living patient. The hospital performed the ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The FDA has granted approval for the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in human patients, a major step in the effort to address a nationwide organ ...