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transplant

[trans-plant, -plahnt, trans-plant, -plahnt] / trænsˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt, ˈtrænsˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt /


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A senior doctor has blamed NHS chiefs for numerous problems within transplant services in England and called for an overhaul in a leaked letter seen by the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The 26-year-old, who underwent a heart transplant in 2012, began taking an off-label prescription for everolimus, a generic version of Novartis’s anti-rejection drug Zortress, a year later.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

The state has tracked data for 72 workers who have undergone lung transplants and 51 workers who have been referred for lung transplant evaluations.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

The coastal village of Onna -- home to the Okinawa science institute -- has been spearheading efforts since 1999 to breed corals and transplant them into the sea.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

In the years between the beginning and the middle of the 1990s, New York City did not get a population transplant.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

The NHS transplants one in 10 lungs and one in seven hearts that are donated - half the proportions seen in some other countries.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The state has tracked data for 72 workers who have undergone lung transplants and 51 workers who have been referred for lung transplant evaluations.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Biliary atresia is the leading cause of pediatric liver transplants and currently has no approved therapeutic options beyond surgery or liver transplant, Ipsen said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Baja transplants seem to come in all types, including contributors, land grabbers and gentrifiers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2026

Or we move because someone transplants us to a new location.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

Based on a 1998 Vibe magazine article about street racing import cars in New York, the film was transplanted to Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

Those cells cannot grow hair in a lab, only when they are transplanted into skin and connected with underlying tissue.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

The painting was eventually transplanted to Jerusalem, where much of Kafka’s archives are also held.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Unlike other US towns, soccer is the dominant sport in Kearny, mostly due to Scottish and Irish immigrants who transplanted the game in the late 1800s as they arrived for factory jobs.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

There were crude charcoal sketches on pieces of whitewashed plaster, carefully transplanted into a frame.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Clutching a mysterious tool the shape of a mouse coffin, Firth’s villain tracks Daniel’s location by mentally transplanting himself into another person’s body, changing the color of their pupils to his own icy blue.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

In practice, he argues, many innovations grow out of existing ones, often by borrowing or transplanting concepts from one field to another.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

To isolate each group, the researchers designed an unusual experiment that involved transplanting different types of microglia into mice that lacked microglia entirely.

From Science Daily Nov. 13, 2025

A living donor liver transplant involves removing a section of liver from the donor and transplanting it into the recipient.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2025

But he and Baachan performed their own small ceremony every spring before the transplanting.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata




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