The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants. Trial involves gene-edited pig kidneys ...

The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...