Doctors say that Richard Slayman's body did not reject a pig kidney modified to become more compatible with human biology.

The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an ...

Richard Slayman lived for less than two months after he received a genetically engineered pig kidney after living with Type 2 ...

BOSTON ‒ Massachusetts General Hospital announced it has successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a person, the first time someone has survived with that organ from ...

Surgeons in the US have carried out the world’s first transplant of a pig kidney into a human ... The milestone in xenotransplantation – cross-species transplants – relied on cutting ...

During the two-hour operation at the New York University Langone Health medical centre, the surgeons connected the donor pig kidney to the blood vessels of the brain-dead recipient to see if it ...

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human ... The procedure done at NYU Langone Health in New York City involved use of a pig whose genes had been altered so that its ...

Previously, other experiments with cross-species surgery struggled with immediate rejection as human antibodies attacked the foreign organ. The pig that provided the kidney had undergone gene ...