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 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.

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

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