transplant
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"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
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
Williamson underwent a liver transplant earlier this year, prompting a judge to delay a February hearing in her case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
More than 10,000 people in the United States with chronic liver disease are currently waiting for a liver transplant, yet the supply of donated organs falls far short of demand.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
“I don’t think I would do an arm transplant, even if it were possible. Could have some scary side effects.”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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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
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 state has tracked data for 72 workers who have undergone lung transplants and 51 workers who have been referred for lung transplant evaluations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
One factor fuelling outsider interest in Bozeman, according to many, was the "Yellowstone Effect" – transplants drawn to the state by the fictitious runaway hit drama Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
If it worked, it might mean doctors could use skin-cell transplants to treat wounds in the field.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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The reaction resembled the way a human immune system may reject a transplanted organ.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 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
The situation led to his decision to stop taking medication that was needed to ensure the continued functioning of a transplanted kidney his brother had donated to him.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
Almost everything offered today for the treatment of heart disease is at this level of technology, with the transplanted and artificial hearts as ultimate examples.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Clutching a mysterious tool the shape of a mouse coffin, Firth’s villain tracks Daniel’s location by mentally transplanting himself into another person’s body, changing the color of their pupils to his own icy blue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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
They carefully accounted for the challenges of transplanting two organs at once, including differences in blood volume needs and electrolyte management during the operation.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025
Both have since died but helped advance xenotransplantation - the transplanting of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
At age thirty-nine he’d already invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together, and had used it to perform the first coronary bypass and develop methods for transplanting organs.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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