The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

Massachusetts General Hospital has performed its second successful genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a patient, ...

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A 66-year-old man, Tim Andrews, has successfully undergone a pig kidney transplant, becoming the second person to do so.

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.

With the procedure, Tim Andrews, 66, of Concord, New Hampshire, became the fourth person in the world to receive a genetically-edited pig kidney He was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 1, with his ...