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...nuclear transfer embryos - parthenogenesis still requires a steady supply of good quality human eggs. These are notoriously difficult to obtain, so the technique won't likely revolutionize medicine yet. But, suggests Daley, it could be used to help alleviate the organ-donation shortage in the U.S.: parthenogenetically created transplant tissues and organs can be banked and later matched on major immune markers to many different patients. It's not quite patient-specific medicine, but it is one step closer...
...show did not reveal itself as a hoax until near the end. Three candidates, each desperately needing a kidney transplant to remain alive, tried to convince a woman dying of a brain tumor why they should be the lucky recipient of one of her kidneys...
...network claims firsthand experience of the shortage of donor organs. Its founder, Bart de Graaff, died five years ago from kidney failure while on a waiting list for a transplant. The show was dedicated to De Graaff, and was punctuated with calls to the public to register as organ donors. The number of responses is not yet known...
...have to do. Margaret Mikol is one such hero. In 1978, her daughter Julia was born with severe combined immunodeficiency, which required her to be kept in a completely sterile hospital environment--like the "boy in the bubble." When Julia was 3 months old, she had a bone-marrow transplant that left her with a functioning immune system but unable to breathe on her own. Her hearing was impaired as well. She spent the next two years in the intensive-care unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan...
...next five years, the Mikols did everything they could to give Julia a normal childhood. But when Julia's condition worsened, the 8-year-old refused the recommended heart-and-lung transplant, and her parents reluctantly agreed with her decision. Before her death, Julia asked her mother to promise to help other children. "You got me home," she told Margaret in the sign language she used to communicate. "You've got to get them home...