A biotechnology company in Research Triangle Park has taken a major step to develop a new option for patients in need of a ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Young adults keep dying at higher-than-expected rates, falling prey to drug overdose and poor health, a new study says.