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

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

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

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

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.The ...

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

Now at 74 days post-transplant, Looney holds the record for the longest-living recipient of a pig organ and is the best proof yet that pig organs could be a viable source for donor organs.

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 ...

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

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

United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...