For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

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

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Pigs have long been seen as a promising source for xenotransplantation because their kidneys closely resemble human kidneys in size and function. Both United Therapeutics and eGenesis have made ...