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Richard “Rick” Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in March at the age of 62.
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Richard Slayman received the historic procedure in March.
Rick Slayman, a Massachusetts man who received the first kidney transplant from a CRISPR-edited pig, has died almost two months after the xenotransplant.
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Richard Slayman died almost two months after the historic procedure, the Boston hospital where he had the transplant said Saturday.
The 62-year-old, who was living with end-stage kidney disease, received a pig kidney with 69 genomic edits less than two months ago.
Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, received the organ at Massachusetts General Hospital in March, with surgeons predicting it would last two years.