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  2. United Network for Organ Sharing - Wikipedia

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    The United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN) in the United States, established ( 42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.

  3. Organ procurement organization - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United States, [1] each responsible for organ procurement in a specific region, and each a member of the ...

  4. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    First Heart and Lung Transplant. Brenda Barber. 1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant. 1984. 10 years. First human hand transplant. Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard. Clint Hallam. The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001.

  5. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The UAGA was drafted in order to increase organ and blood supplies and donation and to protect patients in the United States. [9] It replaced numerous state laws concerning transplantation and laws lacking a uniform procedure of organ donation and an inadequate process of becoming a donor. [9] All states adopted the original version of ...

  6. Human cloning - Wikipedia

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    Human cloning. Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins. The possibilities of human cloning have raised controversies.

  7. Transplant rejection - Wikipedia

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    Immunology. Treatment. Immunosuppressive drugs. Transplant rejection occurs when transplanted tissue is rejected by the recipient's immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. Transplant rejection can be lessened by determining the molecular similitude between donor and recipient and by use of immunosuppressant drugs after transplant.

  8. In Texas, can someone change the donor status on your driver ...

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    Now I have to unregister as a donor. I’m a cancer patient and have never been a donor.” Donate Life Texas is the official organ, eye and tissue donor registry for the state of Texas. Chad ...

  9. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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    The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.