A kidney transplant is when a healthy kidney is placed into a person whose kidneys have failed at working properly. It is usually recommended for people with end-stage kidney disease, where the ...

For the first time, doctors have successfully transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital took the kidney and transplanted it into a ...

Etta Cartmill has spent much of her young life in hospital, fighting to survive. The toddler and her older brother Olly were both born with an extremely rare genetic condition, which caused them to ...

Tim Andrews, a lifelong Concord resident, is in search of a kidney donor after his groundbreaking transplant of a pig kidney failed this fall. Credit: CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN / Monitor Sign up for the ...