Word: transplants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really really hard to quote the numbers. Some have died waiting for a transplant, some are no longer eligible for a transplant because their condition is so advanced and some refuse to undergo so much pain" Gillespie said...
...accordance with general transplant policy, Kuo's donor, who is currently described only as a young Asian woman, will remain anonymous for a year...
...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...
Gillespie said that nationally there is a total of 30,000 diagnoses of leukemia every year. But in its 12-year history, the Asian American Donor Program (AADP) has counted only 136 Asians who were able to find a compatible donor and undergo a transplant...
...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...