While exploring the “dark heart” of the human genome, geneticists have now found some of the most ancient pieces of DNA, inherited from Neanderthals and an as-yet-unknown human relative, which ...

The patient, David Bennett, a 57-year-old Maryland handyman, knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but he was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option ...

U.S. doctors have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to ... shot in the dark, ... an irregular heartbeat — made him ineligible for a human heart transplant or ...

The Maryland man who underwent the breakthrough procedure, 57-year-old David Bennett, was out of other medical options and too ill to be eligible for a human heart transplant.

The news: A gene-edited pig’s heart has been transplanted into a human being for the first time. David Bennett Sr., a man with terminal heart disease, received the genetically modified heart ...

The surgery took place on Friday (Jan. 7), and after four days the human patient is breathing on his own, although he is still connected to a heart-lung machine to strengthen his blood circulation ...