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Man who had world’s first successful pig kidney transplant dies

Man who had world’s first successful pig kidney transplant dies

Richard "Rick" Slayman, the first living person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, died approximately two months after the surgery. The 62-year-old underwent the experimental procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital in March. Although