Tim Andrews is recovering well after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Massachusetts General Hospital is ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

At least four live pig-kidney-to-human transplants have been reported to date, all in the United States. The patient who ...

Last year, a 62-year-old man lived with a pig kidney for almost two months before ... allowed clinical trials for the transplantation of pig kidneys. The biotech company United Therapeutics ...

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

Tim Andrews had not felt great in a long time, but he says all that changed when he became the second patient at Massachusetts General Hospital to undergo a pig kidney transplant. "During the dialysis ...

During the November 25, 2024, transplant surgery at NYU Langone's Kimmel Pavilion, Looney received a kidney from a 10-gene-edited pig, becoming only the third person in the world to receive a pig ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

Researchers at New York University transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead ... who was raising money for his granddaughter’s kidney transplant with a long-distance ride has died from ...

Tim Andrews, 66, received a pig kidney developed by eGenesis at the end of January. He had previously been dependent on dialysis for two years, like millions of other people worldwide with ...

MGH nephrologist Leonardo Riella and surgeon Tatsuo Kawai talk with reporters about Massachusetts General Hospital's second transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human recipient.

At least four live pig-kidney-to-human transplants have been reported to date, all in the United States. The patient who underwent the transplant last November is the longest-surviving recipient ...