Sentences with phrase «so donor organs»

So donor organs could deliver the microbes to patients who develop hyperammonemia.

Not exact matches

Similarly, we built tools so millions of people could commit to becoming organ donors to save others after accidents, and registries reported larger boosts in sign ups than ever before.

So, apparently that was using a living donor organ.

In 2015, she and colleagues in Church's lab used CRISPR to eliminate from pig cells 62 genes so potentially dangerous their very existence nixed previous efforts to turn pigs into organ donors.

Fourteen of the 58 donor service areas offered 129 or fewer kidneys in 2009, so if some organs are shared more broadly, then the expected increase in transplants could represent the addition of a small - to medium - sized donor service area.

If countries want to increase transplant rates, and so increase survival from kidney failure, they might consider changing the way they source donor organs.»

While there is only so much that can be done in terms of policy and research, raising awareness around the need for more organ donors remains paramount in the effort to save more lives.

The combo is then injected into people who have been declared brain dead — M. D. Anderson patients who often wished to be organ donors but weren't eligible, so their families agreed to this study instead — to see which blood vessels the peptide hooks up to.

We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number of healthy donor organs so that we can help more people.

It is difficult to get spleen tissue from previously healthy donors, so the team needed to be on call, ready to process the organ whenever it became available.

Medical evidence suggests that among living organ donors the prevalence of ambivalence is between 5 % and 15 %, with the ambivalence being so severe that up to 15 % of individuals are not able to become donors.

However, even though these patients don't have a blood problem, vis a vis these diseases typically affect brain, heart, and or other organs, they have to undergo myeloablative chemotherapy so their body doesn't reject the donor cells.

They also developed methods for introducing the nanoparticles into the donor organ before it is transplanted, so that only the organ is treated, not the whole body.

And so, you know, we're very interested, as you think about organ transplantation, there's a deficit of donors, and we really rely heavily on patients and trying to get those organs so that we can transplant them into the patients who need them.

And so again, I think that's a great advantage of this type of a system, and hopefully as people need more organ donors, this will be another set of tissues that could be used.

Stories like this make me so proud to be an organ donor!

Under the terms of the paired organ scheme, Mr Horrell, who wanted to donate his kidney to his ill wife, but was unable to do so because he was not a compatible donor with her, instead donated it to a compatible stranger recipient, whose partner in turn donated one of her compatible kidneys to Mrs Horrell.

We do so because, while organ and tissue procurement organizations are integral components of the health care system, we do not believe that the testing, procurement, and other procedures they undertake describe «health care» offered to the donors of the tissues or organs themselves.