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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum

How a family's choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days later was brain-dead. Now she faced a tough question: Would she donate his body for research?

That’s how the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller started its journey to a sunny corner of NYU Langone Health’s intensive care unit — and became part of the quest to one day ease the nation’s transplant shortage with organs from animals.

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