Richard Slayman First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Dies at 62 Years Old
📷 From Istagram @massgeneral saturday – The family of 62- Year- Old Richard announced that he passed away. He made history by receiving the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant past March.The kidney was provided by eGenesis, a pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, and was genetically edited using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Harmful pig genes were…