Sentences with phrase «healthy donor organs»

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.

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To make the rat kidneys, Ott and his colleagues took kidneys from healthy «donor» rats and used a chemical solution to wash away the native cells, leaving behind the organ's scaffold.

Wondering what was behind those reports, McAninch and colleagues at Rush previously obtained and analyzed brain tissue from the University of Miami Brain Bank from deceased Caucasian male organ donors who at their time of death were young and healthy, without known thyroid problems, to see if they could find any clues.

Immunologist William Parker of Duke University examined samples of normal tissue from organ donors and from patients who had healthy appendixes removed during other surgeries.

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.

At the root of the moral controversy of the phenomenon of transplant tourism — many who are desperately ill, travel to various destinations around the globe, in search of a healthy, compatible organ at a price — is the inescapable fact that there simply are not enough available organs in the UK for transplantation, either from cadaveric or live donors.