Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body

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. The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons at NYU Langone Health removed the pig kidney and returned the donated body of Maurice “Mo” Miller to his family for cremation. It marked the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has ever functioned inside a human, albeit a deceased one.

tips

hallway 走廊

tribute 贡物；致敬

kidney 肾

gurney 有轮的床

surgeon 外科医生

cremation 火葬

albeit conj. 尽管

decease 死亡（de- 离开，cease 停止）

unceasing 持续的

ceasefire 停火