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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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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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Roy Calne, Pioneering British Organ-Transplant Surgeon, Dies at 93

His innovations in the use of drugs to prevent organ rejection helped bring a remarkable increase in the one-year survival…

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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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A ‘Preventable Tragedy’: Dying for Lack of an Organ Donor

More from our inbox: A Public Misinformed About the Federal BudgetMaking Bread by HandFoie Gras ‘Status’Against GamblingCredit...Musubu HagiTo the Editor:…

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Tonya Ingram Feared the Organ Donation System Would Kill Her. It Did.

It’s 2019, and the 27-year-old poet and mental health activist Tonya Ingram is looking for a kidney on Instagram. Her…

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Science

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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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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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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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,…

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