Moore vividly re-creates the life of this Scottish pioneer, who was noted not only for his innovative surgical techniques but also for his investigations
into organ transplantation (he implanted a cock's testicle into a hen's belly) and animal dissection (he carved up a giraffe and several whales).
Not exact matches
More established scientists than Yang have dreamed of creating animal
organs that are suitable for
transplantation into people waiting for a human donor.
The application is on hold, the agency has told him, as NIH reconsiders its rules for the kind of experiments he wants to do: mixing human stem cells
into very early animal embryos and letting them develop, a strategy that could produce tissues or
organs for
transplantation.
Current projects are investigating: 1) the expression of inflammatory genes during ischemia and reperfusion of kidneys during urology
transplantation and in mouse models; 2) the expression of inflammatory genes and proteins in urine as markers indicating the presence of rejection in renal allografts; and 3) the role of adhesion molecules and chemokines in directing leukocyte infiltration
into organ allografts.
It was revealed that neonatal thymic tissue
transplantation can lead to the restoration of immune function, but limited availability of tissue grafts of this
organ does not allow the wide spread of this therapeutic approach and its introduction
into clinical practice.
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.