The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

The first clinical trial testing whether pig kidneys can be safely transplanted into living people has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As part of the trial, which will ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough ...

Looney has now been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own, beating the previous record of 60 days that anyone has survived with an organ from another species. The Gadsen ...

Over the past three years, five patients have been known to receive organs from pigs engineered by these companies — two who received hearts and three who received kidneys. But these surgeries ...

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.

Late last year, 53-year old Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, became the third patient to receive a kidney from a genetically engineered pig and she is still thriving. This advance in the field ...

The world’s first man who received a genetically modified pig kidney transplant died two months after the surgery. The man, Richard “Rick” Slayman, was suffering from end-stage kidney ...