Organ
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Health
Second Patient to Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart…
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Health
Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Patient
The organ, from a genetically modified animal, failed because of a lack of blood flow, surgeons said, but did not…
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News
Should Kidney Donors Be Paid?
A guest essay argued in favor of payments. Readers, including donors, offer divergent views.
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Health
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible.
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News
Kali Malone Studied Farming. Fate Brought Her to Avant-Garde Music.
The 29-year-old musician grew up in Colorado and ended up in Sweden, where she fell in love with the organ.…
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News
Roy Calne, Pioneering British Organ-Transplant Surgeon, Dies at 93
His innovations in the use of drugs to prevent organ rejection helped bring a remarkable increase in the one-year survival…
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World
When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.
The technique restarts circulation after an organ donor is declared dead. But first surgeons cut off blood flow to the…
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News
A ‘Preventable Tragedy’: Dying for Lack of an Organ Donor
More from our inbox: A Public Misinformed About the Federal BudgetMaking Bread by HandFoie Gras ‘Status’Against GamblingCredit...Musubu HagiTo the Editor:…
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News
Tonya Ingram Feared the Organ Donation System Would Kill Her. It Did.
It’s 2019, and the 27-year-old poet and mental health activist Tonya Ingram is looking for a kidney on Instagram. Her…
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Real Estate
In Brazilian Caves, She Wields a Penislike Organ to Gather Sperm
Scientists studied the muscles that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of insects.
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