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, the first human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, has died nearly two months after the ...
A US man, Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62, who got a pig kidney transplant about two month ago, has been confirmed dead by the ...
The first man to receive ... While Mr Slayman received the first pig kidney to be transplanted into a human, it is not the first pig organ to be used in a transplant procedure.
The world’s first patient with a transplanted ... Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease.
The Massachusetts man was the first living person to have the procedure. Previously, pig ... received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months. Mr Slayman had a kidney ...
Richard Slayman, the 62-year-old who made history by receiving the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant in March, has died, his family announced on Saturday. Mr Slayman ...
The first human to receive a genetically-modified pig kidney transplant has died — two months ... “To us, Rick was a kind-hearted man with a quick-witted sense of humour who was fiercely ...
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically ...