Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth Patient
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
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FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
United Therapeutics scores FDA go-ahead for pig organ transplant clinical trial
United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...
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FDA Approves First Human Trials for Pig Kidney Transplants
The FDA has given approval for the first clinical trials of pig kidney transplants in humans, representing a significant ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
Now at 74 days post-transplant, Looney holds the record for the longest-living recipient of a pig organ and is the best proof yet that pig organs could be a viable source for donor organs.