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The Weymouth man who received the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital.

In a new, large trial, researchers transplanted kidneys from genetically modified pigs into monkeys that lived for a record amount of time.

UM Medicine successfully completed a second historic transplant of a genetically modified pig heart into a patient with end-stage cardiovascular disease. Studie

Groundbreaking surgery by doctors who successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of a man who is brain dead.

Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of brain dead man.

Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of brain dead man.

The research was made possible by the family of a 57-year-old male patient who had elected to make his body available for science.

With xenotransplantation supposedly hailed as the one-stop solution to end organ donor shortage, researchers tells us that there is more than what matches the gene.

Leading surgeon David Cooper talks about the dawn of a new era of transplantation in which organs for human transplants come from genetically modified animals

If the technique proves generally successful it could revolutionize organ transplant, greatly expanding the pool of available organs.