Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

But Riella said intense exams showed Andrews’ “heart was in the best shape possible.” Still, Andrews was a little nervous and ...

One of the Maryland transplant patients showed evidence of a pig virus in the transplanted heart, highlighting concerns that so-called zoonotic viruses could transfer along with the transplant.

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 ...

Until now, such transplants have been approved under ... Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old grandmother, received a pig’s kidney and a heart pump on different days in April last year.

“By eliminating the organ shortage as a barrier to transplantation, it offers a solution far superior to dialysis,” which can be fatiguing and increase risk of heart problems. Pigs’ kidneys ...

How pig kidneys can work in humans The challenge ... While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart disease, Andrews had only been on dialysis for ...