Second recipient of pig heart transplant dies after six weeks

The second person to receive a pig heart transplant has died, nearly six weeks after the experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, who was ineligible for a traditional heart transplant due to heart failure, received a genetically modified pig heart on September 20. The heart initially seemed healthy but began showing signs of rejection in recent days. Faucette's death follows the world's first pig heart transplant last year, which also ended in failure. Scientists are studying pig organs in the hopes of one day addressing the shortage of human organ donations.