Pig kidney keeps working for over a month in brain-dead man ’s body

Medical breakthrough marks longest pig kidney has functioned in a human, setting stage for operations in living patientsA pig ’s kidney transplanted by surgeons into a brain-dead man has continued to function normally for more than a month – a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.The latest experiment, announced on Wednesday by New York University Langone Health, marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one, and it ’s not over. Researchers will track the kidney’s performance for a second month.Continue reading...
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