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Christopher Bucktin

World's first pig heart transplant patient dies two months after historic operation

The first person to receive a gene-edited pig heart has died two months after the historic transplant.

Dave Bennett passed away on Tuesday afternoon at the University of Maryland Medical Centre in Baltimore.

It was today unclear whether his body had rejected the foreign organ but his death was a setback for surgeons working to give others the gift of life.

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