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Slices | May 1, 2012

Facebooking for Organ Donors

The British health system has teamed up with Facebook to make the social network a place where people can register as organ donors. It's expected to make it much easier to people to register, which is a good thing, since three people die each day waiting for a transplant in the U.K. ...

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Slices | July 12, 2011

Incredible Medical Advance

In a "wow, they can do that?" moment, a Swedish cancer patient was given a trachea transplant using completely lab-created materials. Doctors built a scaffold model of the patient's trachea, and covered it in the patient's own stem cells, which grew a new trachea. The organ was inserted into the patient with no risk of organ rejection as the cells all belonged to the patient ...

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