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

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 ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

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

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

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 ...

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 ...

He suffered a heart attack in July 2023 and faced ... was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after the ...