transplant
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A woman who shared a desperate plea for a kidney on Facebook has undergone a lifesaving transplant after a stranger offered to be her donor.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Runner," an action comedy led by Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, debuted in fourth place, with the heroes fighting a cartel to get a sick young girl a lifesaving organ transplant.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
A heart transplant is currently the only cure for heart failure.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
In 1983 an 8-year-old girl with SCD and leukemia received a bone-marrow transplant from her brother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Until I get the transplant, that number isn’t going back up.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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Australia has approximately 144,000 people living with heart failure, while only about 115 heart transplants are performed each year.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the US, around 100,000 people are waiting for a kidney while only 25,000 transplants occur each year.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Emery said some of her 40-something patients are now on the list for double lung transplants, their only real hope of survival.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“The percentage of workers who have either received lung transplants or who are awaiting lung transplants is astoundingly high.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He’s been watching a show about face transplants in our room.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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If the graft has enough room and a sufficient blood supply, the transplanted hepatocytes can perform functions similar to those of cells inside the liver itself.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
The feat followed trial and error that initially saw him mollycoddle corals in stress-free environments, but those easily perished in the ocean once transplanted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Based on a 1998 Vibe magazine article about street racing import cars in New York, the film was transplanted to Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Those cells cannot grow hair in a lab, only when they are transplanted into skin and connected with underlying tissue.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Later, once the seeds sprouted, they would be transplanted into the paddy.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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But is transplanting staff at the heart of government part of a bigger strategy?
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
In practice, he argues, many innovations grow out of existing ones, often by borrowing or transplanting concepts from one field to another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
She was a master gardener, expert at transplanting Japanese maples, according to her neighbor, Patty Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Another team in China previously reported transplanting such a liver into a patient who had been declared brain-dead.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 5, 2024
But he and Baachan performed their own small ceremony every spring before the transplanting.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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