Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
General Transplant Center. In the time since MGH’s xenotransplant last year, three other pig-to-human kidney xenotransplants have been performed, including one at NYU Langone Health in New York ...
While the company and transplant surgeons initially planned on using pig hearts as a bridge for patients waiting for human hearts—for anywhere from 100-200 days—the baboons have survived for ...