The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from ...

The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by U ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

First, our data only included patients with incident kidney failure who initiated maintenance dialysis or received a preemptive transplant, and it may have excluded patients who received ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

Surgeons performed preemptive RAKT in 52% of cases ... Although the study did not compare RAKT with open kidney transplantation, Dr Territo’s team cited a 2021 report in the Journal of Urology ...