It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a genetically modified pig kidney, and it is still functioning with no signs of rejection or infection
Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Healthhas been functioning for over a month without signs of rejection or infection. The announcement, by researchers at NYU Langone Health in New York, marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned inside a human.
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