The best way to achieve good survival statistics of course is to transplant the healthiest candidates.
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But the thorny bush took a lot of time and effort to transplant and grow.
"By the time I needed to transplant I was really, really unwell, " she said.
Surgeons have less than two hours to transplant organs before they are starved of oxygen and become unviable.
It can be daunting to transplant your life, so you are smart to take it step by step.
Even harder to transplant onto another location would be the requisite wartime mindset that characterizes detention operations at Guantanamo.
He said while scientific technology may make it possible to transplant animal organs into humans, significant safety concerns still exist.
The wolves already in Yellowstone have bred so successfully that plans to transplant other wolves into the area are on hold.
They have helped to transplant a "help Gorbachev succeed" mentality to an environment otherwise skeptical of the wisdom of that approach.
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He employs a dozen gardeners to transplant endangered cacti from well sites.
Never in the past, they say, have we had the ability to transplant genes between widely different species - human genes into pigs for example.
The research team, led by synthetic biologist Omri Amirav-Drory and plant scientist Kyle Taylor, aims to transplant a bioluminescence gene into a small plant called Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family.
But many of the things that work well in Germany its corporatism, its business clusters, its manufacturing prowess are part of a traditional culture that would be hard, if not impossible, to transplant from one country to another.
This is particularly useful when the body needs to defend itself against foreign invasion from bacteria or viruses, for example and particularly frustrating when surgeons want to transplant foreign organs and have to deal with immune rejection.
And then if you, for some and if these cells do turn out to be useful for therapy and I have to transplant some of them into you, or something derived from them, they'll be yours.
At the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Douglas Anderson and Paul Reier are gearing up to transplant fetal spinal cord into patients whose own cords have been crushed, as happens in over two-thirds of all spinal injuries.
Joe Mantello, the director, has done what he could to transplant a dramatic arc into "I'll Eat You Last, " but Mr. Logan hasn't given him much to build on, and Ms. Midler's acting is too vocally unvaried to camouflage its absence.
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Sander Florman, director of the transplant program at Mount Sinai, said the hospital will test its donors as close to transplant as possible in accordance with the new recommendations, and educate donors "to be very careful about any risky behaviors and report them to us confidentially" before donating an organ.
The annual Return of the Chili Queens festival seems to transplant this whole end of town south of the border: there are stalls selling the full, mad range of Mexican wrestling masks, and the sombrero-topped mariachi troupes stationed outside each restaurant somehow succeed in exuding an air of sombre artistry.
What you couldn't do is volunteer to rush transplant organs to faraway hospitals, because if you did, you'd only arrive with coolers full of gazpacho.
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If livers could be preserved for longer it would allow teams to organise transplant surgery more effectively and to find the ideal recipient.
This is because the immune system's rejection response (which obviously did not evolve to frustrate transplant surgery) is actually there to attack tumours.
Menasche's initial trial of the method on ten patients showed tantalizing hints of efficacy, but because there was no control group, it is impossible to tell whether the improvements seen were due to the cell transplant or to the bypass surgery the patients also received.
Geneticist Elizabeth Worthey worked on the first-ever treatment of a patient based on DNA sequencing, helping doctors decide to give a bone marrow transplant to a 6-year-old boy who had suffered through more than a hundred operations.
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But VentrAssist's developers believe this device could provide a permanent alternative to heart transplant.
Scientists are developing a way to screen transplant patients at higher risk of rejecting their new organs.
Doctors and hospitals charge substantial sums of money to perform transplant surgery.
Nicholas is now six, and is doing well, although he still takes drugs to prevent transplant rejection and will need more reconstructive surgery.
He hired Oz in 1986 and then, several years later, when he served as chairman of the surgical department at New York-Presbyterian, assigned him to his transplant team.
Because livers donated after cardiac death have sometimes been linked to worse outcomes after transplant compared to brain-death donations, the fact that more cardiac-death organs were discarded did not surprise the researchers.
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