Members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday. Photo: University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP
US doctors transplant gene-edited pig heart into human patient in a medical first
- Patient David Bennett, 57, is doing well after highly experimental surgery done in a last-ditch effort to save his life
- The groundbreaking transplant shows that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in a human body without immediate rejection
Members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday. Photo: University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP
