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.
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 first man to have ever successfully gotten a genetically edited pig kidney transplant has been reported dead The deceased had battled with kidney disease for almost a decade before eventually ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rick Slayman, recipient of the world’s first pig kidney transplant, sadly passes away, nearly two months post-surgery Massachusetts General Hospital confirms Slayman’s death unrelated to the historic ...