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

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

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

The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by U ...

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

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

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

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

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

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

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