transplant
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There is one heart transplant centre in Scotland.
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
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
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
We watched a newscast that said that a guy had got a heart transplant.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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“The percentage of workers who have either received lung transplants or who are awaiting lung transplants is astoundingly high.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
This has a direct impact on the more than 100,000 patients currently awaiting lifesaving transplants, whose lives depend on Americans saying “yes” to organ donation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Doctors predicted he wouldn't make his first birthday, but he battled on and had heart transplants when he was aged 25 and 35.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Or we move because someone transplants us to a new location.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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The feat followed trial and error that initially saw him mollycoddle corals in stress-free environments, but those easily perished in the ocean once transplanted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 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
While transplanted hair can already grow, recreating follicles that can behave like the natural hair inside the body - repeatedly growing, shedding and regrowing over time - has proved far more difficult.
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
At around thirteen she began to develop breasts; she lost weight, her waist thinned out, and she shot up like a transplanted tree.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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It found that direct injection of seeds into the seabed, along with the transplanting of small intact patches of seagrass had delivered the best results.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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
She was a master gardener, expert at transplanting Japanese maples, according to her neighbor, Patty Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Another team in China previously reported transplanting such a liver into a patient who had been declared brain-dead.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 5, 2024
The transplanting would also need to be done perfectly, but Jiichan was most worried about the “foundation.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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