62-Year-Old Receives World’s First Pig Kidney Transplant
In a remarkable medical breakthrough, Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old manager working for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, has made history by being the first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant and to successfully recover. The groundbreaking surgery was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and represents a major milestone in the field of xenotransplantation, which involves…