However, 62-year-old Rick Slayman was sent home from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Wednesday, two weeks after having a successful organ transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney ...

About 13 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant because of a lack of organ donors, but some scientists think pigs could be the answer. In a new trial that researchers say is ...

Rick Slayman, the world’s first living recipient of a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, was discharged from the hospital Wednesday, two weeks after his operation, Massachusetts General ...

Why an experimental pig kidney transplant offers new hope for thousands awaiting donors 04:00. A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of dialysis after receiving a pig kidney ...

Last month, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman became the second person ever to have a genetically modified pig kidney transplant. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the waitlist for organs.

Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on Wednesday night, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park.

Why was the transplant needed? Slayman has had type 2 diabetes for 30 years and was on dialysis for seven years before receiving his first kidney transplant from a deceased donor in 2018, said his ...

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