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

MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A 66-year-old man has become the fourth person in the world to receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, performed ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...