Seven weeks after receiving the first-ever kidney transplant from a pig, a Massachusetts man died this weekend.
Despite the patient's death, experts say transplants like this could someday help solve the ongoing organ shortage.
BOSTON — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent ...
The first living human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died — two months after the operation.
A US man, Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62, who got a pig kidney transplant about two month ago, has been confirmed dead by the ...
Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, underwent the experimental procedure in March. He also had diabetes and ...
According to a statement by Massachusetts General Hospital, there has been no indication his death was a result of the ...
The 62-year-old resident of Massachusetts' Weymouth, Richard Slayman, shot to fame for receiving the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant in March, has died. Announcing Slayman ...
BOSTON - The Massachusetts man who received the first pig kidney transplant in the world has died. Rick Slayman, 62, from Weymouth, received the kidney from Massachusetts General Hospital on March 21.
Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old US citizen was in the news for being the first person in the world to have got pig kidney ...
NEWSCENTER 5 TED. THANKS. THIS IS BREAKING NEWS. THE LOCAL MAN WHO RECEIVED THE WORLD’S FIRST KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FROM A PIG HAS DIED. RICK SLEIMAN RECEIVED THE GROUNDBREAKING TRANSPLANT AT MASS ...