The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living person. The hospital, which completed the world's first xenotransplantation in March 2024,

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time successfully transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living person. The team performed the first surgery of its kind in the world in March 2024.

Tim Andrews, 66, is living with a pig kidney following a pioneering transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital. This experimental procedure is part of a study aiming to alleviate organ shortages. With over 100,

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

With the procedure, Tim Andrews, 66, of Concord, New Hampshire, became the fourth person in the world to receive a genetically-edited pig kidney He was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 1, with his new kidney functioning as expected.

Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave the hospital a week later. Andrews calls himself “a new man,” free from two years of dialysis.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.