For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.
Organ meats might not be on your culinary radar quite yet if you don't come from a culture that routinely eats them. But that ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
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 surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
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 ...
TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical ...
Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants. United Therapeutics along with ...