Organ
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Food
Second Patient to Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart…
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Food
Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Patient
The organ, from a genetically modified animal, failed because of a lack of blood flow, surgeons said, but did not…
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Opinion
Should Kidney Donors Be Paid?
A guest essay argued in favor of payments. Readers, including donors, offer divergent views.
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Food
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible.
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Magazine
Kali Malone Studied Farming. Fate Brought Her to Avant-Garde Music.
The 29-year-old musician grew up in Colorado and ended up in Sweden, where she fell in love with the organ.…
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World
When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.
The technique restarts circulation after an organ donor is declared dead. But first surgeons cut off blood flow to the…
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US
In Brazilian Caves, She Wields a Penislike Organ to Gather Sperm
Scientists studied the muscles that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of insects.
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World
Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91
He drew the best from complex instruments at Riverside Church in Manhattan, at countless recitals and on the “Hour of…
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Food
Organ Donations Rise Around Motorcycle Rallies
This summer, when half a million bikers clogged the streets of tiny Sturgis, S.D., for one of the country’s largest…
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World
Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92
Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi,…