Article 6KVER 62-Year-Old Man Doing Great After Leaving Hospital With Pig Kidney

62-Year-Old Man Doing Great After Leaving Hospital With Pig Kidney

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Ed Cara
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The new era of animal-to-human kidney transplantation is off to a good start. On Wednesday, 62-year-old Richard Slayman, the world's first living human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, was able to go home from the hospital. Slayman's new kidney appears to be functioning as expected two weeks...

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