Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

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Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

NEW YORK – In an experimental procedure, a genetically modified pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, the longest documented case of its kind. Researchers at NYU ...