transplant
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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
Life expectancy can be extended through a lung transplant, but even then the fatal disease will continue to progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In Wales about 1.4 million people have chosen to donate their organs after their death, while 348 people in Wales are currently waiting for an organ transplant.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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
Hepatitis A is rarely fatal, but Farmer’s case was so severe that Jim and other doctors worried he might need a liver transplant.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
His family said that Pearce, a registered organ donor, donated six organs, helping seven people in urgent need of transplants.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Many immigrants - and northern transplants - are now drawn to the south, especially the bustling economies of cities in Texas and Florida.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Baja transplants seem to come in all types, including contributors, land grabbers and gentrifiers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
Another malady suffered by the Berkeley transplants was severe culture shock.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The researchers transplanted APCs from both young and older mice into a separate group of young mice.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
Breadnut and its cousin, breadfruit, were transplanted from the Pacific to the Caribbean to become food staples for enslaved populations there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
They called themselves Americans, but they were transplanted Englishmen.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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The idea of transplanting the European game and the European league system to the US was unrealistic, said Bank, the expert in sports law.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
Revitalizing T-cells by transplanting healthy mitochondria could strengthen existing treatments like CAR-T cell therapy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
She was a master gardener, expert at transplanting Japanese maples, according to her neighbor, Patty Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
My plan is to start them off in small containers and then locate a place later for transplanting.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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