Summary
- The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died just two months after the procedure
- The surgery took place at Massachusetts General Hospital on a 62-year-old man named Richard “Rick” Slayman
- The hospital expressed condolences to the family and stated that the man’s death was not caused by the transplant
- The use of animal-to-human transplants, known as xenotransplantation, raises ethical concerns and questions about risk to human and animal life
