With more than 100,000 Americans waiting on a new organ, xenotransplantation is a leading example of how editing animals ...

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes within 2 ...

However, in the past three years, half a dozen such procedures have taken place in the United States using pigs that have been genetically modified, so their organs are more compatible with humans’.

As they monitor Andrews’ recovery, doctors at Mass General Brigham have Food and Drug Administration permission to perform ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery.

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m ...

The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by ... This is MGH’s second genetically edited pig kidney transplant in a living ...

Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR, scientists can modify the pig’s DNA. eGenesis workers make more than 60 edits to help manage a host of potential issues including rejection, size of the ...