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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing research focusing on modifying pig organs to reduce rejection and improve ...

How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a ...

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

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

Tegoprubart used as a key component of immunosuppression regimen in the second transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human ...

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