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Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 28, 2011
Dennis Fisher |
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give patients longer lives. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2009 |
Barriers to Preemptive Kidney Transplantation Substantial barriers to preemptive kidney transplantation remain for patients with CKD; a lack of financial resources and educational deficits were the most common barriers found. |
Wired
March 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
Stripped for Parts Organ transplants are a brutal business. Just ask the donors. Our reporter spends a dark night with the living dead. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Face Transplants 101 As the name suggests, face transplants are procedures wherein some or all of a patient's face is replaced. The reason for a transplant could be facial trauma, burns, diseases, or birth defects. |
Scientific American
July 3, 2006
Jeneen Interlandi |
An Immune Portal Protein may be a key to autoimmune disorders |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Cell Transplant Hope for Diabetes Sufferers Iron-based 'magnetocapsules' of insulin-producing cells could help doctors use cell transplants to treat type I diabetes. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
Carol Ezzell Webb |
The Body Shops Part human, part machine, replacement organs may one day extend your life |
Scientific American
December 12, 2005
Philip E. Ross |
Grow Your Own Getting a diabetic pancreas to regrow its islets -- growth factors could restore beta cells lost in type 1 diabetes. |
Salon.com
December 8, 2000
Jenna Glatzer |
A genetic death sentence Doctors routinely deny heart transplants to the mentally retarded... |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
Rich Smith |
What's All the Fuss About Stem Cells? Stocks are up on news of Sweden's miracle meatball. Over the weekend, Swedish researchers announced the successful transplant of an artificial trachea to a patient whose own organ had been ravaged by cancer. |
Nursing Management
June 2012
Atwood et al. |
Organ Donor Considerations Many nurse managers are familiar with the organ donation protocols used in their medical facility, but most are unaware of the legal framework under which organ donation is conducted and the complex network of government and private agencies that support organ procurement and transplantation. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
Managed Care
May 2002
Marlene Piturro |
Wearing Black Hats ... Again Simplistic, for sure. But a movie pitting a man with modest income against the big bad managed care plan has drawn attention to the enormous cost of transplants and the difficulty of matching organs and recipients |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Charly Travers |
Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Elaine Schattner |
A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Cord Blood To The Rescue A study in the Nov. 25 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine confirms that stem cells in blood extracted from the umbilical cords of newborns can help leukemia patients |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
Who Will Build Your Replacement Kidney? Medical technology firms eye the future for grow-your-own body parts. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Print Me a Heart Valve The National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million to a team developing a system that takes cells from a patient with a damaged organ or heart valve and uses those cells to "print" a replacement organ. |
BusinessWeek
December 26, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Check A Box And Save A Life Several European nations have switched to an opt-out, or presumed consent, system for organ donation. An opt-out system in the U.S. would almost certainly pull donor numbers up significantly, and Congress could save tens of thousands of lives by passing such a law |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Want To Bank Your Own Stem Cells? One Los Angeles startup believes everyone should, to be ready when regenerative therapies start hitting the market |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies. |
Scientific American
August 2007
Thania Benios |
Updates: Whatever Happened to...? Quantum cryptography can be hacked... Lycopene does not appear to prevent prostate cancer as once hoped... Otzi Iceman's cause of death identified... Transplants for diabetes... |
Reactive Reports
Issue 56
Jeffrey Krise |
A Basic Approach to Chemotherapy Chemists have found a way to attack malignant cells with an anticancer drug, while sparing healthy cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Young Again Niche cells can reverse the aging of stem cells. |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Fractals support growing organs A method for making intricate networks of artificial blood vessels brings the decades-old dream of growing replacement organs a big step closer. The networks are designed to provide the support structure needed for organ cells to coalesce into something greater than the sum of its parts. |
Reason
June 2008
Kerry Howley |
Kidneys for Sale The Iranians have managed to do something American policy makers have long thought impossible: They've found kidneys for every single citizen in need. |
Reason
May 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Free Ride Vermont State Representatives have introduced a controversial bill offering to wave the driver's license renewal fees of residents who become organ donors. |
BusinessWeek
September 23, 2010
Rob Waters |
Stem Cells That Save Big Pharma a Bundle Drugmakers hope to save big by using stem cells to test drugs for dangerous side effects long before costly human trials are needed. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Organ Donation Recital Organ donation is perhaps not a major financial topic, but it's a major consideration that does have some financial aspects to it. Take a few minutes to learn a little more and give it some thought. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells. |
Managed Care
December 2004
Michael S. Victoroff |
The Organ Trail: Matching Supply, Demand You can buy just about anything on the Internet these days -- including lifesaving body parts. Where do we draw the line? |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2011
Beach et al. |
Organ Donation After Circulatory Death: Vital Partnerships The case of a woman in her mid-50's who sustained extensive brain injury in an accident but wasn't declared brain dead. |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2012
Fiona McKenzie |
Sorting the good from the bad US scientists have found a way to separate cancerous cells from healthy cells by taking advantage of their adhesion properties. Separating cancer cells for analysis is a critical step for determining the recommended course of treatment for patients. |
