David Bennett Sr. received a new heart from a genetically modified pig. A 57-year-old man who underwent a first-of-its-kind heart transplant involving a genetically-modified pig heart is in a "much ...

David Bennett Sr., of Maryland, suffered from terminal heart disease. A Maryland man who earlier this year became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, according to the ...

David Bennett Sr. died in March, two months after being the first person to receive a pig heart transplant A porcine virus has been detected in a man who died two months after being the first person ...

A virus specific to pigs may have been the reason a man who received the first successful transplant of pig heart died two months after the transplant, the operating physician said, according to MIT ...

The death of David Bennett Sr., who received a pig heart in place of his own, may have been hastened by another thing he got from the pig: a common virus. In Bennett's weakened state, the virus called ...

A Maryland man who underwent a pig-to-human heart transplant was infected by a porcine virus. David Bennett Sr. underwent the novel surgery in January after he was ineligible for a human heart. His ...

In the early hours of January 7, 2022, David Bennett was out of options. At just 57 years old, he was bedridden, on life support, and in desperate need of a heart transplant for which he was ...

Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have concluded that a man who received a first-of-its-kind pig-heart transplant in January died two months later of heart failure. The reasons ...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — David Bennett may look familiar. He serves as the district athletics director for Lexington County School District One. He’s also been a high school and college head football ...