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transplant

[trans-plant, -plahnt, trans-plant, -plahnt] / trænsˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt, ˈtrænsˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt /


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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

For decades, the wider area of Williamsburg has held a major cultural fascination for the type of millennial transplant who makes their way out to the East Coast.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

In an effort to supply this natural food, the Canadians have attempted to transplant caddis fly larvae and other insects to the barren reaches of the Miramichi.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

"NHS England is leading a programme of work which is already helping to increase the number of transplants, reduce variation, identify suitable patients earlier and improve access," it added.

From BBC Aug. 13, 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

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The transplanted pig kidney worked immediately, according to details just published in the Lancet medical journal, external.

From BBC Sep. 3, 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 researchers transplanted APCs from both young and older mice into a separate group of young mice.

From Science Daily Jun. 27, 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

I didn't remember which cutting it was; he'd sent so many, some to be pressed when he got home, others to be potted, and some to be transplanted into his garden.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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

"We found that people were actively transplanting and cultivating hazelnuts hundreds of kilometers from their place of origin," Armstrong explains of the expansive trade activity the maps illustrated.

From Science Daily Dec. 6, 2024

The transplanting would also need to be done perfectly, but Jiichan was most worried about the “foundation.”

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata




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