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 dialysis ...

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

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

A 66-year-old New Hampshire man received the kidney as part of a small pilot study at Mass General Brigham. United Therapeutics, another developer of gene-edited pig organs, just won FDA approval for ...

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