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

Organ xenotransplantation, the transplantation of genetically engineered organs from pigs to humans, is not a viable solution ...

United Therapeutics said the FDA has cleared it to begin the first clinical trial testing whether organs from gene-edited ...

David-Alexandre C. Gros, MD, CEO at Eledon, discusses the milestone and the role of immunosuppression regimens for durable ...

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

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

Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...

The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by U ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

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

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

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