Word: transplanters
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First, there was a delicate operation to transplant the ovaries of female embryos into grown-up female mice. The embryo ovaries grew and developed. When the host-mothers were mated, the grafted ovaries produced healthy young which bore no genetic resemblance to the host-mothers. This process might be repeated indefinitely, said Dr. Russell, producing mice with any given number of unborn female ancestors...
...Manhattan Ophthalmologist R. Townley Paton, one of the bank's founders. Chief requirements are a skilled surgeon and good eye material to work with. One eye will restore sight to three others because all the corneal tissue can be used (the cornea covers the whole iris), but each transplant needs to be only about average pupil size (see cut). Bandages come off in three or four days; stitches are out in a week...
...lordship (a Roman Catholic) was in Canada on wartime business for the Knights of Columbus. Looking at Nova Scotia had given him his great idea. He would purchase a chunk of provincial acreage, after war's end transplant Scots from his own bleak estate. A new link between old and new Scotland would be forged, his hereditary holdings would in a sense be reclaimed, everyone would be happy...
Nerve grafts from cadavers can be preserved for long periods, Dr. de Rezende found, in either liquid petrolatum or alcohol. The grafted nerve tissue need not be "alive" when transplanted. Reason: "The function of the nerve transplant is to a large extent merely mechanical. The graft presents thousands of microscopic channels which will help the down-growth of the neurofibrils...
...Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...