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First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Goes Home
Organ transplants
Ronald Bailey | 4.4.2024 2:19 PM
Two weeks ago, surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital for the first time ever transplanted a kidney from a specially genetically modified pig into a living kidney-failure patient, Rick Slayman. Researchers had earlier tested the safety and efficacy of modified pig kidneys in brain-dead patients. Now, the xenotransplant has........
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