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

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

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

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

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

Looney said she also understands why the two kidney patients and especially the two heart transplant patients who went before her did not survive. The pig organ is so healthy, she said ...

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

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 ...

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

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