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
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
He thought he's give Albania rather than Turkey, because he was concerned by media coverage of dental or hair transplant work in Turkey that had gone wrong.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mrs. Smeath was a transplant to the city, from somewhere a lot smaller.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Another benefit of moving to Nevada is the high concentration of transplants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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 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
The pastor and his wife, transplants to Kentucky, have become their closest friends.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Blood vessels gradually grew into the graft, creating a local supply of nutrients that helped keep the transplanted hepatocytes alive and functioning.
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
While transplanted hair can already grow, recreating follicles that can behave like the natural hair inside the body - repeatedly growing, shedding and regrowing over time - has proved far more difficult.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Many of their cell lines tested positive, including the skin cells George Hyatt had transplanted onto a soldier’s arm years earlier.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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The idea of transplanting the European game and the European league system to the US was unrealistic, said Bank, the expert in sports law.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
To isolate each group, the researchers designed an unusual experiment that involved transplanting different types of microglia into mice that lacked microglia entirely.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
She was a master gardener, expert at transplanting Japanese maples, according to her neighbor, Patty Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
He panicked, removed the cells, and hadn’t tried transplanting skin cells since.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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