The kidney was transplanted into a 62-year-old man. A surgical team said Thursday it has conducted the world's first genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a living human. During a four-hour ...

Last Saturday, Richard Slayman made history: He became the first living person to receive a genetically modified kidney from a pig, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said Thursday.

Actor and kidney transplant recipient Erron Jay turns gratitude into action by launching a national donor awareness ...

Another patient 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 dialysis for more ...

Tim Andrews pulled a black jacket over his 2002 Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt and greeted another patient waiting in a wheelchair by the door of the dialysis center. “Hey, how you doing, brothah,’ he ...

Novel research led by Brazilian scientists describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, ...

A California man received a life-saving transplant thanks to help from his best friend and a person he'd never met — until now. Cory Slater and Curtis Choe are both married fathers of three. The two ...

Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased ...

Susan Baldwin gave a kidney to Will Postgate but three-and-a-half years on it is starting to fail - she shares this message ...