Doctors say that Richard Slayman's body did not reject a pig kidney modified to become more compatible with human biology.

Richard Slayman lived for less than two months after he received a genetically engineered pig kidney after living with Type 2 ...

The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an ...

In Slayman's case, however, the pig kidney immediately turned pink when surgeon Tatsuo Kawai connected the human and porcine blood vessels and ureter. It rapidly produced urine. "It was truly the ...

Pig kidneys have been put into brain-dead people ... One of the transplant team, Dr Tatsuo Kawai, said: "Our hope is that this transplant approach will offer a lifeline to millions of patients ...