An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. “It’s like a new ...

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Last year, Tim Andrews was living with diabetes and end-stage kidney disease.

Technically speaking, the transplant was a success.

A groundbreaking surgery was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a genetically modified pig kidney was successfully transplanted into a human patient. Richard "Rick" Slayman, a ...

The kidney Slayman received had 69 genetic edits that removed harmful pig genes and added helpful human genes, researchers said. Photo by Engin Akyurt/Pixabay Rick Slayman, the first person to receive ...

Rick Slayman, the first human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, has died Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital Rick Slayman, the first human to receive a transplant of a ...

Slayman died around seven weeks after his procedure; his hospital said there's no indication his death is related to the surgery. Richard Slayman, the first-ever recipient of a pig kidney transplant, ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died. The University of Maryland announced that the 57-year-old man died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking experiment. It is ...