OK, apparently this has been going on for a while.

Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead

In the NYU case, researchers kept a deceased woman’s body going on a ventilator after her family agreed to the experiment. The woman had wished to donate her organs, but they weren’t suitable for traditional donation.

Again, they're calling her dead while her heart was still beating. Yes, she's on a ventilator, but it wasn't so long ago that we weren't allowed to unplug people on ventilators.

They're keeping a dead person's body going? That's what they're calling it.

But wait. There's more.

This disclaimer is appearing at the bottom of these AP stories:

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.

It didn't take long to find this page:

The Associated Press and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Expand Collaboration to Bolster Health and Science Coverage

The HHMI clearly has a stake in this research. Is it funding it? Non-profit my ass.

The HHMI is giving the AP money.

From that page:

The Associated Press announced today an enhanced collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education that will further expand the news agency’s reporting on health and science over the next three years.

Designed to allow for deeper audience engagement and development, the multiformat health and science projects will also be used to establish best practices for science storytelling.

Funding from HHMI’s Department of Science Education, the largest private, nonprofit supporter of science education in the U.S., will add additional all-formats journalists to AP’s current health and science team.

So the AP, one of the most respected news organizations in the US, is acting as a mouthpiece for this organization.