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

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

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

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

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

The xenotransplantation approach seeks to alleviate shortage of human organs, and could potentially provide a lifeline to ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

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 first four pig organ transplants — two hearts ... people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. Andrews’ kidneys abruptly failed about two ...

Sadly, Bennett developed complications and died two months ... up to 50 people. The kidney for each transplant—dubbed a “UKidney” by its makers—will come from pigs with 10 gene edits ...

The US FDA has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species transplantation.

This story was originally published by WBUR. It was shared as part of the New England News Collaborative. Tim Andrews leans back in a chair and pulls up the bottom of his t-shirt, revealing a pale ...