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

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 ...

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 ...

A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.

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

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

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 ...

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 ...

HealthDay News — An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down. “I’m superwoman,” ...