Sentences with phrase «organ shortage»

«It is stated that animal organs are seen as the best solution to the problems of organ shortages.

Three dimensional organoid production has been one of the «hot topics» in regenerative medicine of the past year, and this strategy is making some headway into solving the problem of donor organ shortages.

Every year, about 500 New York residents on the organ recipient waiting list die because of a statewide organ shortage, according to data maintained by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a database of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

«Innovative strategies needed to address US transplant organ shortage.»

Erasing potentially dangerous viruses brings field a step closer to making up organ shortage with pig parts

She says she sees companies as the entities that translate the discoveries made in academic labs into the solutions that, in Tengion's case, could solve the donor - organ shortage by allowing patients to regenerate their own organs without using embryonic stem cells.

The same question was posed to members of an additional, or treatment, group, but first they were asked to read a 500 - word text about the social and economic consequences of the U.S. organ shortage.

«In an ideal world, such grafts could be produced from patient - derived cells, enabling us to overcome both donor organ shortages and the need for long - term immunosuppression drugs,» says Ott.

We strive to create a world where there is no organ shortage.

Due to organ shortages, thousands of Americans are on transplant waiting lists for 5 or more years as their health deteriorates, and more than 1,000 of them die each year.

They also believe that solving the organ shortage will require more action than simply removing disincentives.

«We strive to create a world where there is no organ shortage,» she says.

«People thought xeno could solve the organ shortage issue,» Yang said.

This will not in itself solve the organ shortage.

«Transplant tourism from the United States is growing in direct correlation to the organ shortage,» says Mt. Sinai liver doctor Thomas Schiano, who published H. Q.'s case in Liver Transplantation in 2010.

Another study would dig more deeply into why nearly 30 percent of the treatment group in the first study continued to oppose the sales after reading the information about the impact of the organ shortage.

This is an especially important issue now because of our nationwide donor - organ shortage,» said coauthor, David Perkins, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine & surgery, and Director of Research for Transplantation.

Liver cell (hepatocyte) transplantation offers a possible solution in overcoming the organ shortage.