<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>It’s been 50 years since the world’s longest surviving kidney transplant patient had his operation.
Harry Turner, now 70, has smashed life expectancy rates after he was predicted to only live a further 16 years.
He had received a<wm> kidney transplant on October 11, 1965, with the hope of replacing his failing kidneys due to the outbreak of AIDS in Kenya in his community.
Now as the longest-living kidney transplant recipient, he is actually longer in age than some of the kids on those kidney dialysis machines. Because of the benefits from his surgery, the patient reported no sign of sickness in his body. Not one symptom existed in his case. His immune system even responded fully once again in ways other than kidney function</wm>, it had not since before. That has some researchers re-opening the question of developing artificial kidneys in