Kidneys

This Kidney Was Frozen for 10 Days. Could Surgeons Transplant It?

David Bale3 months ago013 mins

On the last day of March, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital began an operation that they hoped might lead to a permanent change in how kidneys are transplanted in people. That morning’s patient was not a person. It was a pig, lying anesthetized on a table. The pig was missing one kidney and needed an…

Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient

David Bale5 months ago06 mins

Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Friday. It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new…

F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients

David Bale5 months ago07 mins

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to two biotechnology companies for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into people with kidney failure. If successful, these studies could lead to the broader use of cross-species transplantation, a dream of medical scientists for centuries. One of the companies,…