First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From Hospital
Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home just two weeks after his groundbreaking surgery.
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Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home just two weeks after his groundbreaking surgery.
The first man to receive a genetically-modified pig kidney has been released from hospital in the US in a ‘historic step’, doctors say.
Rick Slayman, the man who received the world's transplanted genetically edited pig kidney at Massachusetts General Hospital, is home Thursday after being discharged Wednesday.
In a medical breakthrough that signals hope for thousands of patients on organ transplant waiting lists, Rick Slayman became the first individual to be
The 62-year-old Massachusetts man who received the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney was discharged from the hospital.