A genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into a brain-dead patient in New York on July 14 has continued to function normally into a second month, the longest such period in a human body. A separate University of Alabama at Birmingham study reported pig kidneys functioning within minutes in a 52-year-old man, with findings peer-reviewed and published in the Jama Surgery journal.
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The procedure was conducted by a team of surgeons in New York on July 14, and the kidney’s performance is being tracked for a second consecutive month.
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Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it’s looking like it is.
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The patient who received the transplanted pig kidney, Maurice “Mo” Miller, had died suddenly at the age of 57 with an undiagnosed brain cancer, precluding routine organ donation.
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genetically modified pig kidneys were transplanted into a 52-year-old man with high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease, and they functioned as expected within minutes of the procedure.
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