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Dialysis Patient Receives Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

‘REMARKABLE’

The organ was taken from a pig with edited genes to reduce the risk of rejection.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons have transplanted a genetically engineered kidney into a dialysis patient in a groundbreaking surgery.
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Dan Ladden-Hall

Dan Ladden-Hall

Breaking News Editor

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