Man who received world’s first pig kidney transplant dies two months after surgery
A man who was the first recipient of a pig kidney transplant has died roughly two months after the transplant. Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, received a transplant of a genetically modified pig’s kidney during a four-hour-long surgery on March 16. The transplant team at the hospital said in a statement that they were “deeply saddened” by his passing. “We have no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant,” the team at Massachusetts General Hospital added. The doctors said Slayman would be seen as a “beacon of hope” for transplant patients and that they were “deeply grateful for hi...