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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant [Watch (HLS stream): A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/xfWg9KIA.m3u8) (2:45)  _Published 2024-03-22. The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the groundbreaking, four-hour procedure on Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old manager at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, on March 16. His doctors report he is doing well and expect him to leave the hospital soon._ --- Mar 25, 2024 2:25 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Jesse Eisenberg wants to shrink the kidney transplant waiting list](/video/RQklPqnq/) ### Jesse Eisenberg wants to shrink the kidney transplant waiting list [New Jersey Hospital Gives Kidney Transplant to Wrong Patient](/video/Yqb8gwjh/) ### New Jersey Hospital Gives Kidney Transplant to Wrong Patient [Melania Trump Hospitalized After Undergoing Surgery for a 'Benign Kidney Condition'](/video/gWXdC9b0/) ### Melania Trump Hospitalized After Undergoing Surgery for a 'Benign Kidney Condition' --- ## Transcript we announced today the successful completion of the first big Gene edited kidney transplant it into a human living being this is a major breakthrough in transplanting Shannon since we have so many patients waiting for a kidney transplant the deceased donor this and many of them will never reach the top of the list actually get a kidney transplant. So this would add a lot of Hope to these patients that will have Alternatives in the near future. So did the patient was struggling during dialysis because if he's like a vascular access he had was having closer to 3 surgeries a month to keep that access open. So he went into dialysis the kidney last Saturday. He has me off dialysis. And today is the day we're going to remove his basketball on his life lion that has kept him alive through dialysis because he doesn't need it the kidneys able to completely control all his minerals all is water balance and there's no need for dialysis pigs and humans have certain incompatibility even do the kidney works exactly the same if you transplant a big kid need your human. There's an immediate rejection of that kid over the years. A lot of research when they're suit exactly what were the causes of these projections and what are some of the incompatibilities and with a major breakthrough in the gene editing tool such as crisper cast nine we have be able now to Target do a laser change in the pig stains in order to make them more compatible to humans. And this is what we were able to do it. There was 69 Jean added dreams. They're 69 Etta James on this pig. They make it much more compatible to humans allowing us to do this transference and make it a successful. Very frequent questions that we get is why did we choose a p why didn't we choose a monkey or some other animal zoo pigs are very similar in size does humans not only that the kidney function is almost exactly the same so and most important they breathe very rapidly so that we are able to grow these pickaninnies space into a very contained environment without any risk of infection so different than a wild pig these pigs have been cloned. They're from a specific strain a place called you cut. These are mini pigs smaller than the usual fix and they have been generic. They have you change the specific genes and and introduce than into a pregnancy in a In this you gotten a strain in order for us to have very similar and genetically modified pigs to using transportation. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant","description":"The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the groundbreaking, four-hour procedure on Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old manager at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, on March 16. 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