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Massachusetts [US], May 13 (ANI): The world’s first living recipient of a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, Rick Slayman died around two months after making history, CNN reported. Slayman, 62, received the kidney at Massachusetts General Hospital in March after he had been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease last year. However, the hospital has emphasized there is “no indication” his death was a result of the transplant. After undergoing the four-hour surgery at the recommendation of his doctors, Slayman, a manager with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, was discharged…