The Latest Breaking News from David Bennett Jr

Man who received a pig heart transplant has died: Doctors unsure why

David Bennett, who two months ago successfully received an “historic” world-first transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart, has died.

The New Daily · Mar 10, 2022

Man, 57, who received first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

David Bennett was given a gene-edited pig’s heart in a pioneering transplant earlier this year

Evening Standard · Mar 9, 2022

Man who received first pig heart transplant dies two months after experimental surgery

The experimental transplant, using the heart of a genetically modified pig, had been the first of its kind

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2022