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A Michigan woman with leukemia is one of the first people in the world to successfully receive a bone marrow transplant from a deceased human donor.

It found the blood stem cells became functional bone marrow at similar levels to that seen in umbilical cord blood cell transplants, a proven benchmark of success.

(Bone-marrow transplant is still used as an umbrella term, though many of these procedures now use cells collected from the blood rather than bone marrow, which can be done without surgery.