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

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

Doctors at Xijing Hospital, affiliated with Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gene edits, pig breeding, and production of the investigational ... yet there were only 27,759 kidney transplants in 2024. Another pause in interest-rate cuts is seen at the March meeting ...

Mass General Hospital discharges second recipient of pig kidney transplant on Feb. 1 Eledon Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s drug tegoprubart played a key role in the success of the second-ever kidney ...

The gene edits, pig breeding, and production of the investigational ... yet there were only 27,759 kidney transplants in 2024.