Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

DESPITE THE RISK, TIM WAS FULLY COMMITTED TO BECOMING MASS GENERAL’S SECOND GENETICALLY EDITED PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT LAST MONTH. WHEN I WOKE UP FROM SURGERY, I HAD ENERGY. THE CLOUD OF ...

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from dialysis, Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday, and recovering ...

Tim Andrews leans back in a chair and pulls up the bottom of his t-shirt, revealing a pale pink scar on the right side of his belly. Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that ...

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from dialysis, Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday, and recovering ...

DO IT FOR THE HOPE. THE HOPE YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE PEOPLE. AT FIRST, TIM’S WIFE, KAREN, WASN’T SO IMPRESSED. A PIG KIDNEY AND YOU’RE GOING TO PUT IT IN YOU? YEAH. I THOUGHT IT WAS KIND OF ...

“Tim’s journey is more than one patient’s ... this year to observe the long-term viability of genetically edited pig kidneys in humans, said Dr. Shimul Shah, division chief of abdominal ...