Doctor's transplanted a genetically-engineered pig heart into a human, again, and now the saved patient has reached a major milestone

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 12:23

Lawrence Faucette, a pig heart transplant patient, works with a physical therapist at the school's hospital in Baltimore, Md.
Tom Jemski/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP

The pig heart transplant patient lived to celebrate the one-month anniversary of his surgery.
The first pig heart transplant patient died two months after surgery due to heart failure.
Doctors are using genetically modified pigs to make their organs more humanlike.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig — and hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.