A 58-year-old man has become the second person ever to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. The patient, Lawrence Faucette, was facing near death from heart failure and wasn’t eligible for a traditional transplant with a human organ.
So surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center gave him the option of receiving a highly experimental procedure that has only been tried once before. Faucette agreed, and after undergoing the surgery on September 20, his heart is reportedly functioning well without any assistance from supportive devices. “At least now I have hope, and I have a chance,” Faucette said in a Wired - Science