Smithsonian Magazine12d
FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
Scientific American5d
Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Hit Long-Awaited Testing Milestone
Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...
Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
The Associated Press on MSN11d
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into ... year survival is about ...
Harvard Medical School11d
Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
CNN on MSN11d
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
The Business Journals11d
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
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 ...
Medindia7d
FDA Approves First Human Trials for Pig Kidney Transplants
With more than 550,000 Americans suffering from kidney failure and nearly 100,000 on the transplant ... Therapeutics’ pigs have undergone 10 gene edits, including adding six human genes and ...
Time11d
Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
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 ...