Nudging Organ Donation in the United States
At a Petrie-Flom Center event, scholars and researchers strategize ways to boost organ donation.
Organ allocation
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A banner year for organ transplantation in the United States became a tattered memory by April 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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By: Gali Katznelson The demand for donated organs greatly outweighs the supply. In the United States alone, there are roughly 115,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. Every ten minutes, a new person is added to the recipient list, and every day, 20 people on the list die waiting. To be an organ donor in…
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By Brad Segal In January of this year, Cell published a study modestly titled, Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells. It reports success bioengineering a mostly-pig partly-human embryo. One day before, Nature published a report that scientists had grown (for lack of a better word) a functioning genetically-mouse pancreas within the body of a…