We still don’t allow stem cell research to proceed and improve our lives. Which means we can’t truly develop a replacement kidney (or liver or whatever organ we want) that would be compatible with our patients. Which is a real problem, since there are some 100,000 folks waiting for a kidney transplant right now. And, about a dozen of those waiting die every single day before they ever get a chance at the transplant.
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Au Revoir to a Pioneer
While we were all sitting down to our Thanksgiving dinner, a pioneer passed away from the complications of an hemorrhagic stroke. Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital), who won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for developing the first living transplant, sharing the honor with Dr. E. Donnal Thomas, who pioneered bone marrow transplants (who died just one month earlier).