The organ came from a Yucatan miniature pig named Wilma, and genetic editing helped make it possible.

Man kept alive by pig kidney for nine months in world first - Tim Andrews, who had end-stage kidney disease, was 66 when he ...

Tim Andrews, 67, received his transplanted kidney from an unusual organ donor - a Yucatan miniature pig - and it kept him off ...

A 66-year-old man has set a new medical record after a genetically modified pig kidney functioned inside his body for 271 ...

Patients on organ-donation waiting lists should have transplants from pigs while a suitable human donor is found, scientists have suggested.

A man has been given a genetically modified pig kidney which enabled him to stay off dialysis for nine months in a world ...

For people with end-stage kidney disease, a kidney transplant can offer a life beyond the exhausting routine of dialysis. But ...

Tim Andrews was running out of time. With a human kidney transplant potentially years away, doctors gave him an experimental ...

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The organ was used as a temporary ‘bridge’ while the man waited for a transplant from a human donor.

A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while ...