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...team suggested that efforts by organ procurement organizations (OPO) to limit inefficiencies could potentially double the number of organs available for donation and help to alleviate the long-standing chronic organ shortage...
...most important benefit of the study is that we now have a sense of how efficient OPOs are in terms of converting potential donors to organ donors—only approximately 35 percent efficient on average,” Guadagnoli said...
With a waiting list more than 80,000 names long, and only 6,200 donations last year, improving procurement efficiency can help to alleviate the nationwide organ shortage, but it will not match growing organ demand, according to a statement released Friday...
...clear that we do not understand how they work together as systems,” Kirschner said in a press release. “We need to build on the foundation of molecular biology to construct an understanding of the architecture of the cell and how cells cooperate across organ systems, with a predictive mode of physiology as the ultimate goal...
When the first store opened, in Hollywood in 1964, founder Wayne Mitchell, a former car salesman from the Midwest, was running a chain of California organ shops. Mitchell bought out a competitor, acquiring a shipment of guitars and amplifiers. Almost as an afterthought, he hung a GUITAR CENTER sign on a storefront on Sunset Boulevard to unload the new merchandise and launched his company from the sleepy world of keyboards into the nascent West Coast rock scene. The Hollywood outlet soon gained a reputation as a place where the stars shopped--some of its earliest customers included members...