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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Gloria Oladipo

US patient receives modified pig kidney transplant in medical milestone

Surgeons operating on patient
Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts general hospital in Boston on Saturday. Photograph: Michelle Rose/AP

Surgeons at a Massachusetts hospital have transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a human recipient, in a medical milestone that could help thousands suffering from kidney failure.

Doctors at the Massachusetts General Transplant Center in Boston performed the four-hour surgery using a genetically edited pig kidney, the hospital said.

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