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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. (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Rick Slayman is pictured at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he became the first person to have a genetically modified pig kidney transplant. (Massachusetts General Hospital)

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