How a Family’s Choice to Donate a Body for Pig Kidney Research Could Help Change Transplants

August 21, 2023

(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. (Read More)