Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...

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

By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to two biotechnology companies for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs ...

United Therapeutics is pioneering a new frontier in organ transplants using pig kidneys. STORY HIGHLIGHTS FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants.

He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney. The team at Massachusetts General used an organ developed by Cambridge ...