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Surgeons perform world's first pig kidney transplant into a human
- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient in Boston.
- The patient, Richard Slayman, is recovering well and is expected to be discharged soon after the groundbreaking surgery.
- This procedure offers hope for addressing the global shortage of donor organs, benefiting patients in need of transplants.
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Pig Kidney Transplanted Into Human for First Time
The gene-edited kidney of a pig has been transplanted into a human successfully for the first time, with the animal being genetically modified to make the organ compatible. The 4-hour surgery was conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) on March 16, according to an MGH press release on Thursday. The kidney came from a pig that underwent 69 genomic edits to remove “harmful pig genes” and add “certain human genes to improve its compat…
·New York, United States
Read Full ArticleA man from Massachusetts has just become the first person to receive a pig kidney transplant.
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