After a ten-hour surgery on Monday, Jeff Kepner, became the first person in the US to receive a double hand transplant. After loosing both his hands to a bacterial infection, Kepner is in for intense physical therapy and a special anti-rejection protocol which includes a bone marrow transplant.
- Coco Ballantyne, Scientific American
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