He is the fourth live recipient in history. The first four pig organ transplants — two hearts and two kidneys — were short-lived. The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac ...

People: This is a study based on research using people. Animals: This is a study based on research on whole animals. US surgeons say a gene-edited pig kidney that was transplanted into a 62-year-old ...

A 66-year-old man whose kid­neys were fail­ing is now the fourth per­son who has re­ceived a gene-edit­ed pig kid­ney, Mass­a­chu­setts Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal ...

And United Therapeutics, another developer of gene-edited pig organs, just won FDA approval for the world's first clinical trial of xenotransplantation. Initially, six patients will receive pig ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living person. News Today's news ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living person. Huge Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032.

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. There was ...

Looney, the woman who received a gene-edited pig kidney late last year, meanwhile, feels like “superwoman,” she told the Associated Press’ Lauran Neergaard in late January. Doctors say she ...

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The FDA has cleared two new re­quests to test gene-edit­ed pig kid­ney trans­plan­ta­tion, in­clud­ing a first clin­i­cal tri­al of the tech­nol­o­gy.

United Therapeutics said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has cleared it to begin the first clinical trial testing whether organs from gene-edited ... modified pig hearts or kidneys ...