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...despite the medical odds, Kuo has survived. Aided by bone marrow drives across the country, including one at Harvard Sept. 23 and 24, Kuo found a compatible donor and underwent a successful transplant operation...
...Mauldin, meantime, graduated from bots to spiders. A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, he designed Lycos, one of the first search engines on the Web. But Julia remained his first love. And earlier this year he started a company in Pittsburgh, Pa., called Virtual Personalities Inc., that will transplant Julia's artificial intelligence into other onscreen beings. He wants to build online games that even girls will play. "Boys like video games because they can shoot things," says Mauldin. "Girls want games they can talk to." To that end, Mauldin this month is releasing a free, downloadable demo...
...months into the couple's courtship, McNutt, who suffered from a congenital kidney disorder, had begun dialysis treatment and learned that he would eventually need a kidney transplant. Zauhar was eager to donate one of her kidneys, but doctors determined she was not a medical match. By December 1994, after McNutt had presented Zauhar with a 3 1/2-carat, $21,500 engagement ring, Dahl stepped forward as a willing and suitable donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering...
...make them headless? Slack tells the BBC, "Imagine reprogramming an egg in such a way that it didn't form a whole embryo but it just formed the organ you wanted, plus the heart and circulatory system." Yes, this is no mad science, but simply organ transplant research ? just as Dr. Ian Wilmut originally cloned Dolly the sheep to create a better glass of milk...
...Chinese regime is so gain-hungry (as Deng Xiaoping's famous slogan runs, "It is glorious to get rich") that it ekes profit out of political prisoners even after their death. The sale of organs of executed prisoners to foreigners willing to put up cash for a quick transplant is an approved practice in China. In life as in death, Chinese citizens are treated as government chattel...