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.
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