One of the great promises of stem cell research is the potential to end the need for organ transplants by actually growing new organs from the DNA of the host.
Each NHS Trust in England is to appoint an organ donation champion to discuss organ donation with families as part of all end of life care where appropriate.
To this end, in May, more than 100, 000 Facebook users signed up to be organ donors when the social network introduced a feature to links users to organ donation registries.