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...loved one has a heart that's failing or kidneys that are giving out, you already know the grim statistics on transplants. A new organ can turn a death sentence into a full and healthy life--but the supply of replacement body parts lags far behind the demand. According to the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing, which maintains the nation's transplant waiting lists, nearly 80,000 patients in the U.S. alone are standing by for new organs--and more than 5,000 people die each year before their turn comes...
...human immune response and resulting organ rejection. If a strain of pig is developed that lacks these genes, scientists believe that they could harvest their vital organs, such as the heart and lungs, and use them successfully in human patients. Such a process could shorten the wait for organ transplants, saving human lives. There are currently almost 80,000 people in need of organs for transplant in the U.S., according to the United Network for Organ Sharing...
...Still, using pig organs as a viable option in transplant cases won't happen anytime soon. Scientists believe it will be roughly four years before pig organs will be available for transplant purposes. The odds were against success in the removal of the first gene copy from the pigs, and are even slimmer in the case of the second. "It was one in 5 million when we had two targets," said Julia L. Greenstein, of Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc. "Now we've got to be twice as good to get the other...
...presumed consent to donate organs [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Dec. 10]. This means that when a person dies, his organs may be harvested unless he has explicitly refused. It's an approach that can save the lives of thousands who would otherwise die each year waiting for a transplant. Today about 50% of registered organ donors have their wishes overruled by next of kin at the time of death. This has to stop. Organ donation is not a decision that should be made when everyone is upset over the death of a loved one. A nondonor registry would solve...
DIED. FRANCIS MOORE, 88, Harvard professor and surgeon who advanced the fields of organ transplantation and post-operative care by measuring the body's common components, such as water, sodium and potassium, and tracking them during surgery; of suicide after chronic heart failure; in Westwood, Mass. A team under Moore's direction carried out the first successful human-organ transplant--a kidney between identical twins--in 1954. TIME hailed him, nine years later, as "one of the half-dozen greatest surgeons...