eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for human transplant. In February, the FDA approved the first large trial of pig kidneys in people, conducted by United Therapeutics, which also ...

She had been on kidney dialysis for nearly eight years, during which she developed very high levels of antibodies abnormally primed to attack another human kidney, making it unlikely that she would ...

United Therapeutics in downtown Silver Spring has received FDA regulatory approval to begin clinical trials for pig-to-human ...

The eGenesis trial will begin with three patients with kidney failure who are unlikely to receive a human organ within five years, Dr. Curtis said. There will be a six-month waiting period between ...

The news coincided with the publication of a New England Journal of Medicine article from eGenesis, Eledon, and MGH detailing the autopsy of the first patient to receive a pig-to-human kidney ...

The participants are between 55 and 70 years old and either not eligible for a human kidney transplant or unlikely to receive one within the next five years, per Nature’s Smriti Mallapaty and ...

For Nancy Hastings, the face of the federal government is the young man who picks her up every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5:45 a.m. to drive her to dialysis. She’s 86, and frail ...

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama.

She had been on kidney dialysis for nearly eight years, during which she developed very high levels of antibodies abnormally primed to attack another human kidney, making it unlikely that she ...