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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.

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. And by pushing the boundaries of research with the dead, the scientists learned critical lessons they’re preparing to share with the Food and Drug Administration -– in hopes of eventually testing pig kidneys in the living.

“It’s a combination of excitement and relief,” Dr. Robert Montgomery, the transplant surgeon who led the experiment, told The Associated Press. “Two months is a lot to have a pig kidney in this good a condition. That gives you a lot of confidence” for next attempts.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the archive.ph link also have ads? I use a blocker so I don't see any.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This nonsense might have a small chance if it was Reagan proposing it in 1980. But it's a different world.

The longer he sticks around the worse the GOP looks to anyone with a brain.

 

Baby boomers anticipate that 47% of pre-retirement earnings will be replaced by Social Security, according to results of an annual survey from the Nationwide Retirement Institute. But the reality for someone making what the Social Security Administration considers the average wage in recent years, about $60,000, is more like 37%, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. And the percentage drops as household income rises.

Alternate: https://archive.ph/Hx1PM

 

Malka Leifer, 56, must serve at least 11 years and six months of the sentence before she can be considered for early release. As soon as she is released from a Victoria state prison, she will likely be deported to her native Israel.

Leifer was principal of Melbourne’s ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel School when she abused two teenage sisters between 2004 and 2007.

Alternate: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sisters-not-powerless-anymore-as-malka-leifer-jailed-for-sexual-abuse/mzdj034zh

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This isn't news, just a rando's opinion in his blog.

 

As a United States Navy plane circled overhead, two Philippine boats breached a Chinese coast guard blockade in a dangerous confrontation Tuesday in the disputed South China Sea to deliver food and other supplies to Filipino forces guarding a contested shoal.

Two Philippine coast guard vessels escorting the supply boats, however, were blocked by at least four Chinese coast guard ships for about five hours in the tense standoff near Second Thomas Shoal.

 

More than 1 in 4 car shoppers in Texas and Wyoming have committed to paying more than $1,000 a month, and experts say it is due to the high volume of large truck purchases in those states, according to a report by auto site Edmunds.

More than 1 in 5 shoppers in seven other states — Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah — are also forking over more than $1,000 for their vehicles each month.

 

Nearly two dozen cattle died in Nebraska, more than 100 Missouri nursing home residents were evacuated and an ice cream shop in Iowa was forced to close as record-shattering heat engulfs more than 20 states.

 
 

Warning: This lengthy article contains disturbing language and details of graphic evidence.

 

Surovikin, former commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, has not been seen in public since the mutiny by Wagner mercenaries in June.

 

All eight people who were stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of metres above a ravine in Pakistan's north-west for many hours have now been rescued.

In a slow and dangerous operation, a military helicopter rescued one child, while teams on the ground recovered the rest of the group after dark.

They were helped to safety along a zip line, with a huge crowd on top of the hillside celebrating their rescue.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's got Trump's backing and I hope he wins the nomination. But he''s too crazy for independents and will galvanize Dem support, so he's toast in the general election.

 

It will be Trump’s fourth arrest since April, when he became the first former president in U.S. history to face indictment. Since then, Trump, who remains the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has had what has seemed like an endless procession of bookings and arraignments in jurisdictions across the country. His appearances in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C., have drawn enormous media attention, with news helicopters tracking his every move.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I could help out with moderation, but I don't know enough about Lemmy to be a head mod.

I'm interested in PF and would like to see this community grow.

 

It’s one thing for Finland or Belgium (the Flemish separatist Vlaams Belang party heads the polls) to veer onto a far-right rail. When it begins to happen in Germany, however, it’s time to start plotting an escape route.

Over the past year, support for the anti-immigrant, pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has nearly doubled to more than 20 percent in POLITICO’s Poll of Polls, a record.

The party is now in second place, just five percentage points behind the center-right Christian Democrats. Over the summer, the AfD has also succeeded in widening its lead over the Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He's trying to out crazy Trump.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I use credit cards for almost all purchases.

As long as you pay it off completely monthly, even modest perks make it an easy choice.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Below 4% is a huge win. I bought my house in 2007 at 6.5%. Refinanced after the financial meltdown at 5% then again in 2012 at 3.25%.

It's been an absolute gift to build equity with such a low rate, but I'm also lucky that I didn't have to move.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If you're impulse buying crap online, I find keeping items in the shopping cart for a day or so gives me time to think before pulling the trigger. If it's an emergency that's one thing, but most of the time it can wait.

Also I find budgetting apps to be really helpful in curbing unnecessary spending.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gen Y (millenials) saw the second largest increase. Balances for millenials and Gen Z are much lower due to other expenses like student loans.

[–] deconstruct@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not just boomers.

Young savers have done especially well. Gen Z saw a 66% increase in average 401(k) balances compared to a year ago, while millennials saw a 24.5% increase. Average Gen X balances were up 14.5%, and baby boomers saw an average increase of 6.3% compared to a year ago.

Source from Fidelity (PDF)

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