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 ...
The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...