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...Dolly begat Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom... The British company that shocked the world by producing the first cloned sheep announced Tuesday that it had produced five cloned piglets - and not only that, certain genes had been "knocked out" of some organ cells of the above-named piglets, signaling a breakthrough in the medical application of cloning technology: Knocking out the genes prevents a human recipient from rejecting a pig organ transplant. "This opens the door to making modified pigs whose organs and cells can be successfully transplanted into humans - the only near-term solution to solving the worldwide...
There's no money to be made; selling an organ is illegal. But the recipient's insurance normally covers your operation and immediate aftercare. Your costs can include hotel bills, lost pay during recovery or possible future disability...
Never let anyone, not even a close relative, pressure you into giving up an organ--no matter if you're healthy. "There's often the feeling that you're not a good friend, father, mother if you don't do this," says Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Some transplant centers will invent a "medical problem" on behalf of those who are reluctant to donate but feel they...
DIED. OFRA HAZA, 41, Israeli pop star whose dance remixes of traditional Yemenite Jewish poetry and techno beats became international club hits; of massive organ failure; in Tel Aviv...
Until a few years ago, it was thought that everyone was born with a finite number of brain cells. Then in the 1990s--designated by Congress as the Decade of the Brain--scientists raised the possibility that the miraculous organ inside our head is capable of creating new cells. Just as important, they found it can grow additional dendrites, those spiky branches on each cell that help communication with other cells...