The kidney transplanted by Dr. Montgomery and his team has worked for more than a month.
This is encouraging news because there are so many people in need of an organ transplant and human organs aren't readily available. If human bodies can more readily accept non-human organs, more people will survive otherwise fatal conditions.
The recipient is 57-year-old Maurice Miller known as Mo, from upstate New York. He died from an unexpected brain tumor. His family decided to donate his body for the experiment, knowing it would be incredibly valuable to do so.
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