For a Pleasant Hills couple, it's also the day one year ago, when they started a life-saving journey at Allegheny General ...

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 ...

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. Andrews’ kidneys ...

Massachusetts General Hospital has performed its second successful genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a patient, MGH reported on Friday. The “miracle” transplant is giving 66-year-old Tim ...

Huong of the National Children's Hospital in Hanoi received a call late on December 18, 2024 from the National Center for ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes virus family, best known for causing infectious ...

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

The genetically modified pig kidney during Richard ... said Slayman was in worse health and had cardiovascular complications going into transplant surgery, while Andrews was relatively healthier ...