Then, divers enter the water, working in the nursery or transplanting the growing coral.
However, xenotransplantation brings the risk of transplanting animal viruses and thus creating new human diseases.
Nedimyer developed a method of growing elkhorn and staghorn coral in underwater nurseries and transplanting it to the wild.
One trial aims to cure diabetes by transplanting insulin-producing islet cells from deceased donors into diabetic patients.
It involved transplanting stem cells grown in a laboratory into the eye, followed by another cornea transplant.
Percy's wife, Isabel, lovingly oversaw the transplanting of dogwoods and azaleas in a natural, uncultivated style around the property.
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The most realistic scenario, he said, is that "in about 10 years" his lab will be transplanting heart parts.
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As Dr Wilmut points out, that would make transplanting tissues created this way into people too risky to contemplate.
Some researchers hope to treat patients by transplanting cells into the heart to promote the growth of new tissues.
What all this means is that the virtues of transplanting nerve cells have yet to be demonstrated beyond doubt.
Venter's transplanting trick was another wow moment at his 500-person gene machine, which goes by an easy-to-remember name, the J.
He's aiming impossibly high again, making big headlines for transplanting the entire genome of one species of bacterium into another.
For developing treatments that involve transplanting stem cells from adults, there is no ethical concern about the use of embryos, Lee said.
In the hands of the director Andrew Adamson, the transplanting of C.
In one instance a doctor successfully cured a mouse of type 1 diabetes by transplanting umbilical cord stem cells into the animal's pancreas.
Dr. Mitalipov said his lab had tried transplanting entire blastocysts into a monkey's womb, but those experiments hadn't yielded a single successful pregnancy.
He underwent three operations, including a 12-hour procedure transplanting a muscle from his back onto his leg and covering with skin grafts from his thigh.
Prof Simon Kay, consultant plastic surgeon, said transplanting a hand from a donor was "exactly the same" as the techniques already practised at the hospital.
Transplanting Asian organs into Asian people leads to higher success rates.
Transplanting Loach to sun-drenched California has not diluted his righteous indignation, and there is clearly no danger of him being seduced by the blandishments of Tinseltown.
But transplanting pig cells into people is still controversial, since it brings the risk of transplanting pig diseases (which may be contagious) at the same time.
However, by multiplying the stem cells in the laboratory prior to transplanting them into adults, doctors have been able to save the lives of older patients too.
In the Akiu no Taue Odori, residents of the town of Akiu in northern Japan pray for a good harvest by simulating in dance the actions involved in transplanting rice.
For all the talk of superorganisms (and despite the yuck factor of what is being moved from one body to another), transplanting a microbiome is far easier than transplanting a heart or a kidney.
At that stage Dr Pusztai's research simply looked like a proof of principle checking that the techniques for transplanting and testing lectin genes worked, prior to exploring other, less harmful lectins as built-in insecticides for crops.
The first solid evidence implicating stem cells in cancer came in the early 1990s when John Dick, a stem cell researcher at the University of Toronto, developed a method for transplanting cancerous human bone marrow cells into mice.
Professor Robin Franklin, a regeneration biologist at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute and report co-author, said: 'Our findings are extremely exciting because they show for the first time that transplanting these types of cell into a severely damaged spinal cord can bring about significant improvement.
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