In today’s Good News, a new AI tool with sharp insights gleaned from donor health data boosts organ transplant success rates. And in Virginia, a high school civics teacher is proud to lose a local election to a 19-year-old former student who found inspiration in his classroom.

Catherine Garcia
The Week Digital

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Doctors and researchers at Stanford University have created an AI tool that could dramatically boost the efficiency of organ transplants. The model predicts whether a donor will die within the crucial timeframe needed to preserve organ quality, cutting wasted preparations by 60%. Trained on data from more than 2,000 donors, the tool outperforms top surgeons and helps ensure that more viable livers reach patients. The breakthrough could ease pressure on transplant teams and give more people a chance at life.

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Cameran Drew recently won a seat on the Surry County Board of Supervisors in Virginia, and his opponent couldn’t be happier. The 19-year-old defeated the incumbent, his former high school civics teacher Kenneth Bell, by eight votes. Bell’s “guidance” is what “helped me and prepared me so much for this moment,” Drew said to CBS News. It was a “brave step” for Drew to enter the race, said Bell, and he’s “so proud” of his former student.

Through his nonprofit Freedom Reads, poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts makes books accessible to prison inmates across the U.S. Betts read “The Black Poets” while incarcerated as a teenager, and it “radically” changed his life, he told The Washington Post. Since launching in 2020, Freedom Reads has installed 500 prison libraries, with the latest at Connecticut’s York Correctional Institution. “We put millions of people in prison,” Betts said. “I want to put millions of books in prisons.”

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