On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
A 66-year-old man has become the fourth person in the world to receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, performed ...
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for human transplant. In February, the FDA approved the first large ...
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.
And United Therapeutics, another developer of gene-edited pig organs ... successfully transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
Andrews had spent the better part of two years on dialysis because of end-stage kidney ... pigs that have been genetically modified, so their organs are more compatible with humans’. Using the ...
The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by ... This is MGH’s second genetically edited pig kidney transplant in a living ...