What was the first successful organ transplant? | The Question

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PublishedMar 10, 2025
Duration1:55
Video IDgzCDOSQ6Cio
Languageen
CategoryEducation
PrivacyPublic
Made for KidsNo
Video TypeRegular Video

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Views3.6K
Likes156
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Engagement Rate4.31%
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Dominic Hall, Manager, Curation and Stewardship, Anatomy and Artifact Collections at Countway Library at the Harvard Medical School, tells the story of the first kidney transplant and how it changed the course of medical history. A team led by Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first whole organ transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick in Boston in 1954.

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