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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hebe Campbell

Watch: 66-year-old man receives pig kidney transplant

Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully completed its second xenotransplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney into a human.

66-year-old Tim Andrews from New Hampshire became the fourth person globally to receive a genetically-edited pig kidney. His transplant builds on the success of Mass General's world-first xenotransplant in March 2024, where the hospital performed the first-ever transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living human.

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