transplanted

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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

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

When transplanted into diabetic mice, the cells gradually restored the animals' ability to regulate blood sugar.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Almost everything offered today for the treatment of heart disease is at this level of technology, with the transplanted and artificial hearts as ultimate examples.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas