Lawrence Faucette, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors announced Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

The first person to receive a pig heart transplant died on Tuesday, two months after the procedure, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced. David Bennett Sr. was 57, ...

The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was ...

The first person to receive a genetically engineered pig heart, David Bennett, did so in January 2022.The heart had the same gene edits as Faucette’s, and the transplant was also performed by ...