Lisa Pisano, the fourth person to ever receive an organ from a pig, had to have the kidney removed after doctors decided it was doing more harm than good. The other three patients who have received ...

The first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital announced on Wednesday. Rick Slayman, 62, had end-stage ...

A Massachusetts General Hospital doctor who saw the urine output from a pig kidney he’d just finished helping transplant into a Weymouth man last Saturday called it “the most beautiful thing I have ...

A transplant surgeon revealed the cause of death of a patient who received a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, the Boston Globe reported. Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, ...

Doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a woman who was too sick for a “traditional” organ transplant on Wednesday. Patient Lisa Pisano, 54, suffered from heart and kidney failure before ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital say they've successfully completed the world's first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human. The patient is Rick Slayman, ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday said they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human living with kidney disease, the first such procedure in the world. The ...

BOSTON ‒ Massachusetts General Hospital announced it has successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a person, the first time someone has survived with that organ from another ...

(AP) - An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I ...