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

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 ...

The second person ever 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 ...

BOSTON - For the second time in less than a year, a surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human. The recipient is 66-year-old ...

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 ...

NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN ...

United Therapeutics is pioneering a new frontier in organ transplants using pig kidneys. STORY HIGHLIGHTS FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants.

Less than a year after becoming the first hospital in the world to transplant a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed its ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery. A Mass General ...