Recipient of pig kidney transplant, Rick Slayman, dies

Rick Slayman, the 62-year-old who grabbed headlines as the world’s first patient with a transplanted pig kidney has died, almost two months after the operation. In March, Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into Slayman who was living with end-stage kidney disease. The operation was a milestone in xenotransplantation – the transplantation of […]