When my kidneys stopped working properly, my dad gave me one of his kidneys. Thanks, Dad.
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Artículos sobre Organs
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Religious and cultural beliefs play a role in the country’s organ donor shortages. But these factors alone grossly oversimplifies the issue.
A liver transplant from an HIV-positive living donor to an HIV-negative recipient is possible, but there are still gaps in our knowledge.
I joined a Facebook group about organ donation. Within two days an Indian man offered to sell me his kidney.
To encourage more people to donate, we need to figure out how location has affected their decision.
Researchers who’ve created a kidney-on-a-chip explain why these kinds of devices are an improvement over traditional ways to test new drugs.
Most people don’t know if they have a hidden extra organ. But they’re surprisingly common and often harmless.
Taking the placenta as a case study, researchers are able to piece together how new organs evolve, by repurposing old tissues and using them to do new jobs.
Hormones may not be the only thing that determines how your organs act.
A so-called “organ-on-chip” device could speed up the way drugs are developed. And it’s just been named the London Design Museum’s design of the year.
“Mini brains” with separate working regions have been grown using stem cells in the lab for the first time. They have similarities to an embryo in the womb up to nine weeks. Under the right conditions…
Principales colaboradores
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Emeritus Professor at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
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Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, Harvard University
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Senior Scientist and Deputy Scientific Director, IMBA
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Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
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Professor in Communication Studies, McMaster University
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Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, IMBA
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Assistant professor, bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
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Bioethicist and Health Communication Specialist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral research associate, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
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Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
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Lecturer in Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Freiburg
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Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University
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Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick
