An important step toward a surgery the New York team intends to ultimately undertake on living patients was the transplantation of a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man. The kidney has been functioning regularly for more than a month. Scientists around the nation are vying for the knowledge necessary to use animal organs to save human lives, and the bodies provided for research serve as an amazing practice.

Big medical breakthrough as pig-to-human kidney transplant succeeds for a month

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