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After two weeks on the run, a pig named Kevin Bacon is safe at home – and even got some love from his namesake, actor Kevin Bacon. Chelsea Rumbaugh of Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania, brought Kevin Bacon, a two-year-old, 200-pound Juliana pig, home
Lawrence Faucette, the recipient of the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, has died nearly six weeks after the surgery, as announced by the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) on Tuesday. The 20-year Navy veteran and married father of two
A Maryland man who received a pig heart transplant in a highly experimental surgery nearly six weeks ago has died, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, a 20-year Navy veteran and a married father of two from Frederick, Maryland, had
Larry Faucette, 58, pictured at left, was the second person to receive a genetically modified pig heart. Dr. Bartley Griffith, professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who performed the surgery, is shown at right. (University of Maryland
A farmer has agreed to stop rearing pigs in return for £1.5million of public money so that officials can grant permission for 5,000 new homes to be built. The deal is part of a move to reduce pollution in waterways in Norfolk
One month after a Maryland man received an experimental pig heart transplant, the patient is doing well and shows no sign of infection or rejection of the organ, doctors say. “We are withdrawing all the drugs that were initially supporting his heart,”
Humans are one step closer to getting gene-edited pig kidneys after monkeys given the organs survived for more than two years with no health issues. Scientists, led by experts from biotechnology company eGenesis and Harvard Medical School in the US, transplanted kidneys
Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them. The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons
A pig kidney is still functioning correctly more than six weeks after surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City transplanted the genetically engineered organ into the body of a 57-year-old man, who had been declared brain-dead. This marks the longest