Here’s what to know. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, received the pig kidney transplant during a four-hour surgery that took place on March 16, according to MGH. Without a transplant ...
The world’s first living recipient of a kidney from a genetically altered pig has gone home to recover after the medical ...
The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts ...
A Massachusetts man who received the world's first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant has died, his family announced Saturday. Richard Slayman of Weymouth was released last month from ...
Previously, pig kidneys had been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors. Two men received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months. Slayman had a kidney transplant at ...
April 4 (UPI) --Rick Slayman, the man who received the world's transplanted genetically edited pig kidney at ... Slayman had end-stage kidney disease when he got the transplant.
Patient Rick Slayman getting ready to leave Massachusetts General Hospital after his kidney transplant. Credit ... of doctors had transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into a living ...