Tim Andrews is recovering well after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Massachusetts General Hospital is ...

At least four live pig-kidney-to-human transplants have been reported to date, all in the United States. The patient who ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

But in February 2025, a pivotal moment was reached when the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first clinical trial testing whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs could be safely ...

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

Tegoprubart used as a key component of immunosuppression regimen in the second transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human ...

Doctors at Xijing Hospital, affiliated with Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a ...

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama. "I feel ...

Although the lead indication for Tonix's TNX-1500 product candidate is the prevention of rejection of transplanted human ...

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted into his body six weeks ago. Dr. Leonardo Riella squirts a cold gel on Andrews’ belly, and presses an ...