Doctors transplant pig kidney into brain-dead person in record 61-days-long experiment
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US doctors who used a genetically modified pig kidney to revive a brain-dead patient revealed on Thursday said that their record-breaking 61-day experiment was over. The most recent experimental treatment, which primarily tests the method on corpses donated for science, is a part of a burgeoning field of study targeted at developing cross-species transplants.