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Shalala said she hopes her proposal will reduce shortages of the organ throughout the country. In 1998 alone, 1,319 Americans died while awaiting necessary liver transplants...
Under the National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984, Shalala has the power to set the rules governing the allocation of transplanted organs...
...These experiments, which scientists caution are not necessarily indicative of future success in human subjects, could usher in a new era of organ transplants, giving hope to people whose sensory organs have been damaged or lost. While scientists have already used human cells to grow skin in labs, the generation of eyes and ears is a more complex and multi-faceted challenge, in part because of the complexity of those organs. But in the long run, scientists say, it's possible that human cells could someday be used to grow replacement parts - thus diminishing the dependence on human donors...