New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally

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    1 year ago

    Wait, they transplanted a pig’s kidney into a… corpse? How did they get authorization for that experiment exactly? The family donated the body to science? I know they’d have just kept him on dialysis if they were actually attempting to prolong his heart beating corpse status.