Sentences with phrase «viable organs»

Creating viable organs to transplant into ailing patients is a holy grail of stem cell research.

«Without the Bcl - xL gene to tell cells to survive in developing organs, you don't get viable organs,» says Craig Thompson, MD, director of the University of Chicago's Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research and an investigator in the university's Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who is senior author of the new study.

He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»

Savulescu takes the approach further, prescribing specific techniques by which death may be hastened by physicians so that they can procure the optimal number of viable organs.

The tissue is not a viable organ, but may be useful for other purposes such as replacing animals in drug toxicity tests, the team said.

Yet even after the film is over, the score leads us into the credits and it feels as if a viable organ is missing to make the film feel as good as it looks.

His grief - wracked parents (Emmanuelle Seigner and Kool Shen) are asked to decide, quickly, whether their son would want his viable organs donated — organs that could help people like Claire (Anne Dorval), a mother to two adult sons whose own heart is rapidly failing her.