Thu, 09/28/2023 - 12:59 Gizmodo 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette has become a medical milestone this month, being only the second living person in the world to have received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. Read more... Tags pig, heart transplantation, united therapeutics corporation, lawrence faucette, xenotransplantation, bartley griffith, life extension, transplant rejection, cardiac surgery, mohiuddin, david bennett, organ donation, health medical pharma, organ transplantation, dhaniram baruah, transplantation medicine, animal testing Source After First Setback, Second Pig Heart Transplant Provokes Cautious Optimism