The first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died
![Rick Slayman is pictured at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he became the first person to have a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/05/12/slayman-rick_custom-73a730dabc9d2ca5e308f685629293ccfd9471ce.png)
Richard Slayman died almost two months after the historic procedure, the Boston hospital where he had the transplant said Saturday. At 62, he had the transplant to treat his end-stage kidney disease.
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