Word: transplanter
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...village of Soldiers Grove (pop. 616), snugly settled in the white oak, pine and basswood hills of southern Wisconsin, is slowly coming awake again, like a patient after a successful heart transplant. In this case, the village is undergoing urban surgery. "Soldiers Grove's survival," boasts one resident, "has been a matter of gumption...
...Geneva and Peter Hoppe of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., both veteran researchers in cell biology. Their breakthrough was not in conception -since the procedures for cloning are familiar. It lay rather in the surgeon-like skill and persistence with which they used microscopic instruments to transplant nuclei from cell to cell...
...Coma, the bestselling novel that became a hit movie, greedy physicians have a nifty racket going: in order to acquire valuable organs for transplant surgery, they slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...
...program suggests that the brain-death criteria, particularly in Britain, are not strict enough and intimates that a factor may be the need for healthy organs for transplants. To buttress the show's argument, the producers described the experiences of five American patients who were thought dead but who survived. Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart...
Well, the point was the music, a peak-velocity transplant ot American rock, with its original blistering spirit not only restored but exalted. There was some concern for the future, however. A Liverpool record-store owner named Brian Epstein thought he might be able to lend a hand there. He signed on as the group's manager in 1961. By the end of the following year. boys got their first record contract and their first producer, George Martin, who remained aboard for the crazy cruise that came to be called Beatlemania. There was one final change of personnel: Drummer...