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bmacho • yesterday at 9:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> fascinating that the organ could live that long

All types of organs can live that long, there are 100 years old humans around. Probably many types of organs could live much longer, we don't know that, the humans having them die first.


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agumonkey • yesterday at 10:25 PM

I didn't read the article, apologies, but did they say the kidney was under-performing ? my comment above is badly trying to say "it's 100 and about to go much further"