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

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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    The possibility that pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of transplantable organs persuaded the family of Maurice “Mo” Miller from upstate New York to donate his body for the experiment.

    “I struggled with it,” his sister, Mary Miller-Duffy, told the AP about her decision. But he liked helping others and “I think this is what my brother would want. So I offered my brother to them.”

    "He’s going to be in the medical books, and he will live on forever,” she added.