Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

In January, he had an experimental cross-species transplant of a kidney from a genetically modified pig. He is one of only a handful of patients who have undergone the experimental procedure.

Organ shortages are a chronic problem around the world and Mass General said in March that there were more than 1,400 patients on its waiting list for a kidney transplant. The pig kidney used for ...

it’s the second time that a kidney failure patient has been given a new lease of life. The recipient of the genetically modified pig organ was a 66-year-old man, surgeons said. The transplant ...

It conducted the first successful pig-to-human heart transplant ... to the American Kidney Fund. United Therapeutics estimates that approximately 500,000 dialysis patients in the U.S. will not ...