The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...

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.

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

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

The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

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

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

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

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

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

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...