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In a first, man receives heart from pig

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A first in the history of medicine came when a man received a heart from a genetically modified pig.

The procedure for the 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease marks the first successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human being.

Scientists hope the technology will help provide needed organs amid a shortage.

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