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Nearly six weeks after his surgery, the world’s second recipient of a genetically modified pig heart has died, the University of Maryland announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old resident of Frederick, Md., with terminal heart disease, died Monday. He had received the experimental xenotransplant on September 20 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an eight-hour operation.
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