The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.
The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into ...
Pig organ transplants so far have been “compassionate use” cases, experiments the Food and Drug Administration allows only in ...
Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...